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Re: Does a larger gc-cons-threshold mean a faster Emacs?
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Kevin A. Burton |
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Re: Does a larger gc-cons-threshold mean a faster Emacs? |
Date: |
28 Jul 2002 16:44:06 -0700 |
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Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/21.2 |
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"Eli Zaretskii" <address@hidden> writes:
> > From: address@hidden
> > Date: 26 Jul 2002 18:17:30 -0700
> >
> > This would lead me to believe that setting this to a large value would:
> >
> > 1. Take up a lot of memory
> > 2. Increase the perceived Emacs speed
> >
> > Right now I have it set to :
> >
> > (setq gc-cons-threshold (* 8192 8192))
> >
> > Which seems to yield decent speed (though Emacs uses 50M)
>
> Not exactly: it also makes each GC significantly slower (in my experience).
> With the default threshold, each GC is over very quickly (on a decent
> machine).
<snip/>
The problem is that the GC happens synchronously while running emacs. I have
increased the gc-cons-threshold and at the same time installed an idle timer to
run GC in the background... :)
Kevin
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