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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
Cc: eggert@cs.ucla.edu, 37321@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#37321: 27.0.50; Excessive gc in a use case (el-search)
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2019 15:14:35 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83tv8zl0es.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87tv8zs2r9.fsf@web.de> (message from Michael Heerdegen on Thu, 26 Sep 2019 13:42:02 +0200)

> From: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
> Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2019 13:42:02 +0200
> Cc: 37321@debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> > That is, if you are observing significantly better performance with
> > gc-cons-percentage set to 0.8, shouldn't we set it to be that value by
> > default in Emacs?
> 
> Good question.  Could it have downsides (I guess garbage collection
> would happen less often but take longer then so one could get noticeable
> interrupts)?

Using 0.8 means we won't GC before we cons 80% of the heap, which
sounds too high.

Btw, any reason why you enlarge gc-cons-percentage instead of
gc-cons-threshold?  The former is less determinate because it depends
on the size of the heap, which you cannot control.





  reply	other threads:[~2019-09-26 12:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-09-06 13:52 bug#37321: 27.0.50; Excessive gc in a use case (el-search) Michael Heerdegen
2019-09-07 14:23 ` Michael Heerdegen
2019-09-07 15:30   ` Michael Heerdegen
2019-09-08  1:11 ` Paul Eggert
2019-09-08 14:52   ` Michael Heerdegen
2019-09-08 15:25     ` Michael Heerdegen
2019-09-14  8:04       ` Paul Eggert
2019-09-14  8:37         ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-09-14  8:52           ` Paul Eggert
2019-09-14  9:57             ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-09-14 17:57               ` Paul Eggert
2019-09-14 18:16                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-09-15  4:33             ` Richard Stallman
2019-09-16 23:53         ` Michael Heerdegen
2019-09-17  0:55           ` Paul Eggert
2019-09-21  0:41             ` Michael Heerdegen
2019-09-21  0:46               ` Michael Heerdegen
2019-09-21  6:19                 ` Paul Eggert
2019-09-17 12:47           ` Noam Postavsky
2019-09-21  0:44             ` Michael Heerdegen
2019-09-25  9:42         ` Michael Heerdegen
2019-09-25 20:37           ` Paul Eggert
2019-09-26 11:42             ` Michael Heerdegen
2019-09-26 12:14               ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2019-09-26 13:03                 ` Michael Heerdegen
2019-10-08  8:43                 ` Michael Heerdegen
2019-10-08  9:09                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-10-08  9:11                     ` Michael Heerdegen
2019-10-08  9:19                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-10-08 11:12                         ` Michael Heerdegen
2019-10-08 12:11                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-10-08 12:38                             ` Michael Heerdegen
2019-10-08 13:03                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-10-09 14:47                                 ` Michael Heerdegen
2019-10-09 15:33                                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-10-09 20:53                                     ` Paul Eggert
2019-10-10 10:58                                     ` Michael Heerdegen
2019-10-08  9:22                       ` Michael Heerdegen

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