Re: Indentation and gc

[Ihor Radchenko]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> (pcase (* (car (memory-info)) ; in kb
>>        1000)
>>   (`nil 800000) ; 800kb, old default
>>   (ram
>>    (let ((scaled-threshold
>>        (* 0.7e-2 ; 800kb/128Mb for low-end systems.
>>           ram)))
>>      (min
>>       (* 100 1000 1000) ; upper limit to avoid fragmentation
>>       scaled-threshold))))
>
> The above implicitly assumes that gc-cons-threshold is the absolute
> ceiling of the memory Emacs can allocate.  But that is not what that
> threshold means and how it is used.  Even with the default threshold
> of 800K a running Emacs session can allocate much more than 800K
> bytes.

No. I took into account the fact that `gc-cons-threshold' is paired with
`gc-cons-percentage'. The latter scales with Emacs memory usage. For the
former, it makes sense to scale with available memory until
`gc-cons-percentage' takes over.

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