Re: MPS: User GC customizations

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Gerd Möllmann <gerd.moellmann@gmail.com>
> Cc: pipcet@protonmail.com,  yantar92@posteo.net,  emacs-devel@gnu.org,
>   eller.helmut@gmail.com
> Date: Thu, 04 Jul 2024 21:09:23 +0200
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> >> From: Gerd Möllmann <gerd.moellmann@gmail.com>
> >> Cc: pipcet@protonmail.com,  yantar92@posteo.net,  emacs-devel@gnu.org,
> >>   eller.helmut@gmail.com
> >> Date: Thu, 04 Jul 2024 20:28:23 +0200
> >> 
> >> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> >> 
> >> > IOW, let me turn the table and ask what does "idleness" have to do
> >> > with this variable?
> >> 
> >> Simple. Because this person here, a long time ago, idly put
> >> mps_arena_step where it is, when writing igc_on_idle, and made Emacs call
> >> that when idle.
> >
> > Then it follows that "we" cause the to begin when Emacs is idle, and
> > "we" tell MPS that it is kindly requested not to spend more than
> > igc-step-interval seconds doing GC before it returns, when we trigger
> > GC via mps_arena_step.  Right?
> 
> We give MPS the chance to to work it wants to, right. 

OK, in that case all the preceding discussion and confusion was due to
misunderstanding, because that's what I meant from the beginning.