Re: Indentation and gc

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> From: Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>
> Cc: spacibba@aol.com, arne_bab@web.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2023 13:38:54 +0000
> 
> What about expanding the relevant paragraph in the manual with examples
> when increasing the threshold too much is dangerous?
> 
>      The initial threshold value is ‘GC_DEFAULT_THRESHOLD’, defined in
>      ‘alloc.c’.  Since it’s defined in ‘word_size’ units, the value is
>      400,000 for the default 32-bit configuration and 800,000 for the
>      64-bit one.  If you specify a larger value, garbage collection will
>      happen less often.  This reduces the amount of time spent garbage
>      collecting, but increases total memory use.  You may want to do
>      this when running a program that creates lots of Lisp data.
>      However, we recommend against increasing the threshold for
>      prolonged periods of time, and advise that you never set it higher
>      than needed for the program to run in reasonable time.  Using
>      thresholds higher than necessary could potentially cause
>      system-wide memory pressure, and should therefore be avoided.

What is there to expand?  It already says all that people need to
understand before they play dangerous games with the threshold.