From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Richard M. Stallman" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: GC Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2005 01:38:16 -0400 Message-ID: References: <200506182319.j5INJWF08937@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <874qbqh0lm.fsf@jurta.org> <87mzpf3a5v.fsf_-_@jurta.org> <87y88zv3vm.fsf@jurta.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1119852964 28496 80.91.229.2 (27 Jun 2005 06:16:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2005 06:16:04 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, adrian@xemacs.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jun 27 08:16:01 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DmmuJ-0000ld-41 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 27 Jun 2005 08:15:47 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Dmn1t-0000qu-67 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 27 Jun 2005 02:23:37 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Dmmgs-0003p1-Oc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Jun 2005 02:01:55 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Dmmgq-0003nj-09 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Jun 2005 02:01:52 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Dmmgo-0003R7-DR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Jun 2005 02:01:50 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DmmPT-0003bt-CE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Jun 2005 01:43:55 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1DmmK0-0004MJ-Cq; Mon, 27 Jun 2005 01:38:16 -0400 Original-To: Eli Zaretskii In-reply-to: (message from Eli Zaretskii on Sun, 26 Jun 2005 20:51:19 +0200) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:39612 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:39612 > Garbage collection will happen if this percentage of the total amount of > memory used for data has been allocated since the last garbage collection. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ We talked about a percentage of the installed physical memory, not of memory used for data. I did not notice that difference before. Over a long Emacs session, it may not make much difference which one we do. However, their formula may avoid the need for the artificial upper bound that we were talking about.