Re: lists.texi

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Juri Linkov <address@hidden>
> Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 19:28:55 +0300
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
> 
> > Apparently these timings are not very fixed.  In a freshly started
> > Emacs, my proposed version took 12 seconds (instead of earlier 23) and
> > the abstract versions 40 seconds (instead of 51).  This gives a
> > mysterious gain of 11 seconds for both.  But now my proposed version
> > runs 3.33 times faster than the abstract ones, instead of earlier 2.2.
> 
> I noticed too that in sufficiently long Emacs sessions Lisp evaluation
> slows down.

One possible situation where this could happen is if you customize
gc-cons-threshold to a large number.