On 6/25/05, Luc Teirlinck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, obviously if you have very little resident memory and set > gc-cons-threshold to a huge value, then conceivably your operating > system could wind up spending most of its time swapping memory. Then > not only Emacs, but everything else as well, will become slow. I do > not know whether that is what Eli is referring too. Certainly, if you > have a reasonable amount of resident memory, increasing > gc-cons-threshold to 4M should not create any such problems and it > does speed up things.
It's certainly the case that most machines these days have vastly more memory than even a few years ago. For developers I think a practical minimum is 512MB, for less demanding users, maybe 256MB (if you buy a low-end budget computer, this is typically the amount of RAM it comes with) -- but a 4MB gc threshold looks like nothing compared to either one, and the current default (400KB) looks downright silly. I also think OS memory management is much better these days, which likewise suggests increasing the default limit. -Miles -- Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball. _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel
