Re: Garbage collector: is 800kb a good default?

[Andrea Corallo]

Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:

>> Of course, raising the threshold significantly higher on its own is
>> not a very good idea. But if paired with an idle timer like suggested
>> here [2], then it all starts looking like a decent combination:
>
> I agree that it's worth investigating improvements based on dynamically
> changing the GC threshold.

This what I run when I'm on X86 machines or SoC where for various
reasons memory latency is a pain.  In this conditions I find it helps
considerably for me.

https://gitlab.com/koral/gcmh/-/blob/master/gcmh.el

On normal conditions I often don't bother.

Andrea

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