bug#37321: 27.0.50; Excessive gc in a use case (el-search)

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Cc: michael_heerdegen@web.de, 37321@debbugs.gnu.org
> From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
> Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2019 01:52:27 -0700
> 
> On 9/14/19 1:37 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > It might be a good
> > idea to give users who do care some inside information to allow them
> > to tune their GC tricks to these changes -- it could lower the number
> > of bug reports that I'm afraid will follow.
> 
> I could add something to NEWS along the lines of "The heuristics for when to 
> garbage collect have been tweaked, in an attempt to make Emacs perform a bit 
> better and follow its documentation a bit more closely." Dunno how much that 
> would help, though. It'd be hard to be much more specific.

If we cannot give any specifics, I think at least telling users to
re-tune their GC tricks would help.

Thanks.