bug#37321: 27.0.50; Excessive gc in a use case (el-search)

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
> Cc: eggert@cs.ucla.edu,  37321@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2019 11:11:56 +0200
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > No, I think it's too high for being the default (you can, of course,
> > do that locally).  Can you instead increase gc-cons-threshold, leaving
> > the percentage at its default value, and see if you can get the same
> > good results?  It is much easier for us to bump gc-cons-threshold
> > (assuming the higher value is still reasonable), because that is an
> > absolute number, so it is independent of the heap size.
> 
> Sure.  Which value would you suggest?

Start with 4 times the default.  If that's not enough, double the
value until you are satisfied, and tell what was the final value.

Thanks.