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From: | Stephen Berman |
Subject: | Re: setting an optimal value of gc-cons-threshold |
Date: | Sun, 10 Jun 2007 12:14:51 +0200 |
User-agent: | Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux) |
On Sat, 09 Jun 2007 21:04:01 -0400 Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote: >> I found quite a few people in their .emacs setting gc-cons-threshold to >> a different value than the default 400000. > >> I wonder if there is a guidance for setting this value. > > Better not touch it. In Emacs-22 we introduced gc-cons-percentage which > provides the same benefit as increasing gc-cons-threshold but without > the drawbacks. And without having to fiddle with it. > > I.e. I'd recommend users to remove any gc-cons-threshold settings from their > .emacs. Perhaps this recommendation should be mentioned in the manual and docstrings. Steve Berman
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