Jan Vroonhof <vroonhof(a)math.ethz.ch&gt; writes: So am I. The other day I went to a friends' and saw his XEmacs consuming only 11M of memory, with Gnus started. Then I recalled that my XEmacs used to take only 12M or so memory and run that way for days, ultimately going to 15M or so. Now, 15-20M is a minimum startup. I'm not sure the conses are responsible, but it might be worth investigating. (And I still remember being flabbergasted by XEmacs 19.12 taking 8M when I started using Emacs. Eight megs! For chrissake...)