From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Leo Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: setting an optimal value of gc-cons-threshold Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2007 11:59:54 +0100 Message-ID: References: <87ir9wktes.fsf@escher.local.home> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1181473377 9925 80.91.229.12 (10 Jun 2007 11:02:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2007 11:02:57 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jun 10 13:02:55 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HxLC9-00070S-R0 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 10 Jun 2007 13:02:54 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HxLC9-0008TU-5L for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 10 Jun 2007 07:02:53 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HxLBD-0008RA-PC for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Jun 2007 07:01:55 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HxLBC-0008PF-BA for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Jun 2007 07:01:55 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HxLBC-0008P9-3k for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Jun 2007 07:01:54 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HxLBB-0001bL-SA for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Jun 2007 07:01:54 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1HxLAe-0006Ub-Rv for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Jun 2007 13:01:21 +0200 Original-Received: from sl392.st-edmunds.cam.ac.uk ([131.111.223.202]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 10 Jun 2007 13:01:20 +0200 Original-Received: from sdl.web by sl392.st-edmunds.cam.ac.uk with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 10 Jun 2007 13:01:20 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 23 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: sl392.st-edmunds.cam.ac.uk Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAACgAAAAoBAMAAAB+0KVeAAAAG1BMVEUAAAA9Cgm3Hx1WWFWA gn+WmJWsrqv4+vcCAwCRl2MkAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAAAFiS0dEAIgFHUgAAAAJcEhZcwAAAYoA AAGKATOXMFgAAAAHdElNRQfXAQwDNR+ZJmElAAABIklEQVQoz22SPW+DQAyGWUq65qasd9PNUSX4 AZHK2C1rJy5jpDS4IwRVup9dn7GNafpKIPPgzztXFSujqq1eM2n8h22oMkvxI/i9C97kRfMRUN55 dS3BrsAwBXUtMLAO4lryh8kTjOxKpQNniNxAgZOEe4bZwsDTFhKdqZRLNII4OQNHhEuq/RMkm6Cj TnnEA/fk0BorcYn5qA3oaeAxbaBOLrX+9G48NZ2Fzc2tzDM8Q+tMypEOqYHh8mAWaaK3U/cDMOT5 aMZMABgPXc7zPMs1A8DXO756GFJ/4fMEq47hTsAdn5avoxZ4ywl0c2w4Flu2Ybeyb3S+EqxX2DYA H8veJGEDTnHnrXvRaPyt+2kSfK6rfBZ2tUtfP/mR+pR6sX8BUZ/cDV7tvkoAAAAASUVORK5CYII= User-Agent: Gnus/5.110007 Emacs 23 (20070531) MULE/6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO) Fedora 7 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:/Kh9MCR7RIEFREYn1ZO2RB+G2Qo= X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:44839 Archived-At: ----- Stephen Berman (2007-06-10) wrote:----- > On Sat, 09 Jun 2007 21:04:01 -0400 Stefan Monnier wrote: > >>> I found quite a few people in their .emacs setting gc-cons-threshold to >>> a different value than the default 400000. >> >>> I wonder if there is a guidance for setting this value. >> >> Better not touch it. In Emacs-22 we introduced gc-cons-percentage which >> provides the same benefit as increasing gc-cons-threshold but without >> the drawbacks. And without having to fiddle with it. >> >> I.e. I'd recommend users to remove any gc-cons-threshold settings from their >> .emacs. > > Perhaps this recommendation should be mentioned in the manual and > docstrings. I second this. -- Leo (GPG Key: 9283AA3F)