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> From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
> Cc: acm@muc.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 10 May 2024 19:12:50 -0400
> 
>     I don't know if the dedicated
>   > thread can be disabled, but even without it one would expect to get lower
>   > pause times from incremental collection, possibly at the cost of higher
>   > total collection times.
> 
> That isn't pbvious to me -- though it might be true.
> Would people please benchmark this when they have a chance?

The branch is not yet in a state that we can turn our attention to
performance aspects.  We are still working on adapting some basic
Emacs features to this new GC.