bug#40704: 28.0.50; Improve and speed up (Gnus) registry saving

[Eric Abrahamsen]

Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de> writes:

> Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
>
>> > -- who has experience with this problem -- anybody?
>
> Maybe the scaling idea is not a good idea at all.  Even when it works as
> we hope - the ideal factor could still depend on what kind of data is
> saved.
>
>> Not me, let's hope for more respondents...
>
> Did you try how the increased gc-limit behaves for you btw?  Then we
> would at least have two data points.

I applied the patch a couple of days ago and have been very pleased with
the speedup! Nothing "bad" has happened, but I haven't tried
experimenting with different gc limits, either.