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Re: Does a larger gc-cons-threshold mean a faster Emacs?
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Richard Stallman |
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Re: Does a larger gc-cons-threshold mean a faster Emacs? |
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Sat, 27 Jul 2002 20:42:45 -0600 (MDT) |
Subject: Does a larger gc-cons-threshold mean a faster Emacs?
Up to a point, yes.
(setq gc-cons-threshold (* 8192 8192))
Which seems to yield decent speed (though Emacs uses 50M)
If I set it to anything higher... I get CONSTANT gc and lock my CPU at 100%
(emacs is dead)
Precisely what larger value did you use? Was it so large
that it caused arithmetic overflow and gave you a negative number?
If you used a sufficiently large value, it would overflow.