Re: Some experience with the igc branch

[Gerd Möllmann]

Gerd Möllmann <gerd.moellmann@gmail.com> writes:

> Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Gerd Möllmann <gerd.moellmann@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> MPS is concurrent.
>>>
>>> One can tell MPS that one has a certain amount of time to spare, so it
>>> can do work then, which I think runs in the main thread. I do that when
>>> Emacs thinks it's idle.
>>
>> Apologies if this is a naive question, but:
>>
>> What do we gain from using the main thread for this, instead of always
>> letting it run in a separate thread?
>
> It's just an assumption I made:
>
> I thought if Emacs is idle anyway, why not let MPS do some work _in
> addition_ to its normal work, in Emacs' thread. And my hope would be to
> further reduce pause times, for example for the collection fo older
> generations.
>
> It it does that I don't know. It's a knob one could play with.

Forgot the name the kid: It's igc-step-interval.