From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Thanks to those implementing the new GC! Date: Wed, 08 May 2024 19:23:26 -0400 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="17496"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Alan Mackenzie Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu May 09 01:24:12 2024 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1s4qdw-0004VC-3Q for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 09 May 2024 01:24:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1s4qdG-00040c-Hc; Wed, 08 May 2024 19:23:30 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1s4qdE-00040M-CV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 08 May 2024 19:23:28 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1s4qdD-00051t-4I; Wed, 08 May 2024 19:23:27 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=Date:References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From: mime-version; bh=RKmiD0D9nbEuWnEKl7UoykDxX8pWE2tWJJ+z7LzWiFU=; b=dKyU0SjLRRO8 ut2sqTwWOMql9lROuWXypXpM+OhuMsgLQAKDUOxi2kOTlpEQAZEu3zFN9gJXjM/9AGfOriXGCWhxg PkM+F+PNSb6V9T+G2VpU3ga9xq3eTzj5ncB31RQpAm7PpFA4dAbnfCyGV3j5jC+szPC7Ia17+BCYc NVH2n2TGSge/MLIkpmulxaySiZCCxJCOAD6OF0VRf/ha00DQ+wfUqbPAF/dNbX/txq3m5Pf3l9qOz 0JPfUgykgp0Hx8PTYbZqWnB0svuOEbIfVs1kaENlU34h9lVP6PcspwqkcHlHzmgfj1C4TbQlmgHnu EhPV9/bJiCz/ogcY8Who3Q==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1s4qdC-0002no-4i; Wed, 08 May 2024 19:23:26 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Alan Mackenzie on Fri, 3 May 2024 12:25:11 +0000) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:319026 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > I very much look forward to the new GC, which will be incremental and > take place on a different processor core from most of Emacs, given how > most (?all) modern PCs have several cores. It will be good to use > these. This leads me to wonder what the effect of the new GC will be on a single-processor machine. Will Emacs run slower on those with thw new GC? -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)