From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@is.elta.co.il>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Does a larger gc-cons-threshold mean a faster Emacs?
Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2002 21:07:12 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3405-Sun28Jul2002210711+0300-eliz@is.elta.co.il> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ofcu55qt.fsf@openprivacy.org> (burton@openprivacy.org)
> From: burton@openprivacy.org
> Date: 26 Jul 2002 18:17:30 -0700
>
> This would lead me to believe that setting this to a large value would:
>
> 1. Take up a lot of memory
> 2. Increase the perceived Emacs speed
>
> Right now I have it set to :
>
> (setq gc-cons-threshold (* 8192 8192))
>
> Which seems to yield decent speed (though Emacs uses 50M)
Not exactly: it also makes each GC significantly slower (in my
experience). With the default threshold, each GC is over very
quickly (on a decent machine).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-07-28 18:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-07-27 1:17 Does a larger gc-cons-threshold mean a faster Emacs? Kevin A. Burton
2002-07-28 2:42 ` Richard Stallman
2002-07-28 2:54 ` Kevin A. Burton
2002-07-28 18:07 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2002-07-28 23:44 ` Kevin A. Burton
2002-07-29 4:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-07-29 17:30 ` Richard Stallman
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