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Re: RMAIL slows


From: David Kastrup
Subject: Re: RMAIL slows
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 21:54:17 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux)

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

> I wonder if the slowness is due to an increasing number of markers
> or overlays in the buffer.  Maybe goto-address is making them and
> never getting rid of them.

If that were the case, then one symptom might be that performance
improves when setting gc-cons-threshold to a _smaller_ value, such as
1000.  Then Emacs would collect garbage (and consequently unused
markers slowing down the operation) quite more often.

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum




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