Re: Indentation and gc

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: "Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide" <arne_bab@web.de>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2023 15:36:06 +0100
> 
> I have these set in my .emacs.d/init.el
> 
> ;; at the start:
> 
> ;; Make startup faster by reducing the frequency of garbage
> ;; collection.  The default is 800 kilobytes.  Measured in bytes.
> (setq gc-cons-threshold (* 100 1024 1024))
> 
> 
> ;; at the end:
> 
> ;; Make gc pauses faster by decreasing the threshold again (from the 
> increased initial).
> (setq gc-cons-threshold (* 20 1024 1024))
> ;; original value: 800 000
> 
> ;; speed up reading from external processes
> (setq read-process-output-max (* 1024 1024)) ;; 1mb

This can only be done around specific portions of code known in
advance to be long and GC-intensive.  I don't think this kind of
technique can be used in the situation described by the OP.