Re: Some experience with the igc branch

[Gerd Möllmann]

Pip Cet <pipcet@protonmail.com> writes:

> Óscar Fuentes <ofv@wanadoo.es> writes:
>> With igc the pauses are still there, but they much shorter and
>> predictable, they no longer distract me from thinking on what I'm
>> writing, which is a huge improvement. I suspect that some of those
>> pauses are not related to garbage collection (executing code and moving
>> data also takes time.)
>
> Quite possible.  Even if it is GC, please keep in mind that MPS has many
> settings which you can play with, and it can improve things a lot.  It's
> not too early to become a fan of the scratch/igc branch, but it is too
> early to reject it for performance reasons.  It's a "heads you lose, tails I
> win" situation, I guess.
>
>> TL/DR: now I enjoy using Emacs with this setup and I'm no longer tempted
>> to switch to other editors for this type of work.
>
> I think this is an important point: ultimately, it's about having daily
> drivers.  We need to remove the remaining impediments for that:
>
> 1. The signal issue.  I don't have a good way to fix this and make
> everyone happy, but I do have a solution which hasn't caused a crash for
> me in quite a while.  It may be good enough.

TBH, I'd have put it in already.

> 2. no-purespace.  Merging that into scratch/igc would help, well, me.
> What do others think?

Doesn't affect me much.