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Re: Indentation and gc
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Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: Indentation and gc |
Date: |
Sat, 11 Mar 2023 15:46:30 +0200 |
> From: Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>
> Cc: spacibba@aol.com, arne_bab@web.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2023 13:38:54 +0000
>
> What about expanding the relevant paragraph in the manual with examples
> when increasing the threshold too much is dangerous?
>
> The initial threshold value is ‘GC_DEFAULT_THRESHOLD’, defined in
> ‘alloc.c’. Since it’s defined in ‘word_size’ units, the value is
> 400,000 for the default 32-bit configuration and 800,000 for the
> 64-bit one. If you specify a larger value, garbage collection will
> happen less often. This reduces the amount of time spent garbage
> collecting, but increases total memory use. You may want to do
> this when running a program that creates lots of Lisp data.
> However, we recommend against increasing the threshold for
> prolonged periods of time, and advise that you never set it higher
> than needed for the program to run in reasonable time. Using
> thresholds higher than necessary could potentially cause
> system-wide memory pressure, and should therefore be avoided.
What is there to expand? It already says all that people need to
understand before they play dangerous games with the threshold.
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