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- Message-ID: <9211060256.AA08035@thymus.synaptics>
- Subject: GC idea
- Reply-To: daveg@synaptics.com
- Date: Thu, 05 Nov 1992 18:56:08 -0800
- From: daveg@thymus.synaptics.com (Dave Gillespie)
- Newsgroups: alt.lucid-emacs.help
- Path: sparky!uunet!wendy-fate.uu.net!help-lucid-emacs
- Sender: help-lucid-emacs-request@lucid.com
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- What would you say to putting something in Emacs' command loop so that,
- if Emacs has been idle for, say, 20 seconds, and the allocator is more
- than, say, 3/4 of the way to gc-cons-threshold, then Emacs pauses to do
- a GC. This would drastically reduce the number of times Emacs has to
- stop for GC while you're actually in the middle of something.
-
- -- Dave
-