From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: GC Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2005 09:02:57 +0900 Message-ID: References: <200506182319.j5INJWF08937@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <874qbqh0lm.fsf@jurta.org> <87mzpf3a5v.fsf_-_@jurta.org> <87y88zv3vm.fsf@jurta.org> Reply-To: snogglethorpe@gmail.com, miles@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1119745616 19895 80.91.229.2 (26 Jun 2005 00:26:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2005 00:26:56 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, miles@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jun 26 02:26:49 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DmKyr-0007hQ-Oo for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 26 Jun 2005 02:26:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DmL6C-000594-16 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 25 Jun 2005 20:34:12 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DmL4D-0003S5-Jj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Jun 2005 20:32:09 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DmL4B-0003R3-KD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Jun 2005 20:32:08 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DmL3M-0002Wz-D5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Jun 2005 20:31:16 -0400 Original-Received: from [64.233.184.197] (helo=wproxy.gmail.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DmKfp-0003zH-PG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Jun 2005 20:06:57 -0400 Original-Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 40so205219wri for ; Sat, 25 Jun 2005 17:02:58 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=UaGBZ4F1zZWTFg/ZvAmViB0kihtRnVNk95St/uq9TWb1bqnynlhd2d1GloA0HAzZ3bsEPSFYF2aHn+n1FT/fHnWKQIpAZpH2UjIi/L/PjZyRTtJ0N0cTGVKKFMEkAbEnEafLbENEHlqmaapPPJ70hgbXKuZJPjbU7WCkXSiaYiA= Original-Received: by 10.54.59.32 with SMTP id h32mr59878wra; Sat, 25 Jun 2005 17:02:57 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.54.19.31 with HTTP; Sat, 25 Jun 2005 17:02:57 -0700 (PDT) Original-To: Adrian Aichner In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline 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:39528 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:39528 On 6/26/05, Adrian Aichner wrote: > >> isn't that the purpose of > >> gc-cons-percentage > > > > There is no such variable in Emacs. >=20 > Oh, so it's a XEmacs-only thing. OK; guess if we add this feature, we should use the same variable name thou= gh. As Ga=EBtan Leurent pointed out, it's also a good idea to apply min/max bounds to the calculated value, to handle extreme cases; what does xemacs do about that? [I'm thinking a minimum of say the current default (400K), and a max of oh, 8MB.] -Miles --=20 Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball.