Re: Increase gc-cons-threshold during package-init?

[Daniel Colascione]

On 02/19/2018 09:23 AM, T.V Raman wrote:
> With Emacs now calling package-initialize on its own, I noticed (after
> removing package-initialize from my emacs init file)
> that emacs startup was now  entailing 3 times as many gc calls during
> startup as before. One guess is that my init file was lexically
> binding gc-cons-threshold to 64MB --- the default gc-cons-threshold
> of 800K is likely from the past and could be increased.

There's a tradeoff though: increasing gc-cons-threshold means that the 
GC that eventually occurs takes longer. I wish we had generational GC.