Re: Some experience with the igc branch

[Pip Cet via "Emacs development discussions." <emacs-devel@gnu.org>]

Gerd Möllmann <gerd.moellmann@gmail.com> writes:

> Pip Cet <pipcet@protonmail.com> writes:
>
>> Óscar Fuentes <ofv@wanadoo.es> writes:
>>> With igc the pauses are still there, but they much shorter and
>>> predictable, they no longer distract me from thinking on what I'm
>>> writing, which is a huge improvement. I suspect that some of those
>>> pauses are not related to garbage collection (executing code and moving
>>> data also takes time.)
>>
>> Quite possible.  Even if it is GC, please keep in mind that MPS has many
>> settings which you can play with, and it can improve things a lot.  It's
>> not too early to become a fan of the scratch/igc branch, but it is too
>> early to reject it for performance reasons.  It's a "heads you lose, tails I
>> win" situation, I guess.
>>
>>> TL/DR: now I enjoy using Emacs with this setup and I'm no longer tempted
>>> to switch to other editors for this type of work.
>>
>> I think this is an important point: ultimately, it's about having daily
>> drivers.  We need to remove the remaining impediments for that:
>>
>> 1. The signal issue.  I don't have a good way to fix this and make
>> everyone happy, but I do have a solution which hasn't caused a crash for
>> me in quite a while.  It may be good enough.
>
> TBH, I'd have put it in already.

Pushed it now.  It is imperfect, but better than crashing.

>> 2. no-purespace.  Merging that into scratch/igc would help, well, me.
>> What do others think?
>
> Doesn't affect me much.

Well, it does cause some noise, so I thought I'd ask first.

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