From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Bozhidar Batsov <bozhidar@batsov.com>
Cc: mwd@md5i.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Default history-length should be higher
Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2014 21:44:35 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83r47ua5p8.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAM9Zgm3JFVB+BzQ5gJ9g2fv60APBoQzcfS8L3aRzTCcNURDjeg@mail.gmail.com>
> Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2014 21:22:37 +0200
> From: Bozhidar Batsov <bozhidar@batsov.com>
> Cc: emacs-devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
>
> While we're at it - why not increase the default `gc-cons-threshold' as
> well. Currently the default is 0.8 MB, which seems super-conservative given
> today most computers have 1GB+ of memory. Code that creates a lot of
> objects would obviously be impacted significantly, since GC would be
> performed frequently. Setting it to something in between 10MB and 50MB
> seems much more reasonable to me.
Did you try that? If not, please do. In my experience, your
suggestion has a downside: the GC indeed happens less frequently, but
when it does, it takes an annoyingly long time. I find it easier to
tolerate many GCs that run to completion in less than a second, than
to have a few GCs that take several seconds each.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-01-26 19:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-01-24 19:10 Default history-length should be higher Tom
2014-01-24 20:54 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-01-25 1:35 ` Drew Adams
2014-01-25 6:39 ` Tom
2014-01-25 7:42 ` Drew Adams
2014-01-25 7:56 ` Tom
2014-01-25 8:05 ` Tom
2014-01-25 8:45 ` Drew Adams
2014-01-26 5:00 ` Michael Welsh Duggan
2014-01-26 19:22 ` Bozhidar Batsov
2014-01-26 19:44 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2014-01-26 20:19 ` Bozhidar Batsov
2014-01-26 20:34 ` Óscar Fuentes
2014-01-26 21:16 ` Drew Adams
2014-01-26 23:44 ` Trent W. Buck
2014-01-26 23:52 ` Stefan Monnier
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