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From: | Paul Eggert |
Subject: | Re: What improvements would be truly useful? |
Date: | Mon, 5 Mar 2018 09:21:29 -0800 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.6.0 |
On 03/05/2018 06:02 AM, John Yates wrote:
in spite of running on a state of the art desktop with 64GB RAM, 4GHz+ multi-core processor and high-end gamer graphics Emacs feels progressively less responsive
I'm feeling that on my older work desktop too (8 GiB RAM, 2.6 GHz quad-core, circa-2010 AMD Deneb). However, I suspect it has mostly to do with things other than GC.
The main argument to improve GC is robustness, not typical-case performance. We're still installing last-minute hacks into Emacs 26 because of real-world problems here. It would be useful if we didn't have to mess with these hacks because we fixed GC to not blow the C stack.
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