Re: Indentation and gc

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>
> Cc: arne_bab@web.de, spacibba@aol.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2023 15:01:47 +0000
> 
> >> Indeed. But despite all of the best efforts, fragmentation increases if
> >> we delay GCs, right?
> >
> > Not IME, no.  That's why the memory footprint of a typical
> > long-running session levels out.
> 
> Then what is the mechanism of gc-cons-threshold affecting the Emacs
> memory footprint?

Because higher threshold increases the probability that some free
memory couldn't be released to the OS.