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> 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).