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Re: Tip: speeding up xwem

From: Steve Youngs <steve@xxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Tip: speeding up xwem
Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2005 13:33:10 +1000
Organization: The XWEM Project
User-agent: Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) SXEmacs/22.1.2 (Audi, linux)
* Zajcev Evgeny <zevlg@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

  > Increasing `gc-cons-threshold' value, drastically increases xwem
  > speed.  I recommend using 10000000 .. that is value i'm using at
  > home.

I really don't think this is a good idea.  This variable more or less
determines when SXEmacs garbage collects.  Setting it to a high number
forces SXEmacs to garbage collect less often, but it _still_ happens.
Fewer garbage collects means each garbage collection takes longer.

Yes, I did test it... the speed increase here was so insignificant
that it was hardly noticeable.  Actually it wasn't noticeable at all.

IMO, a waste of time.


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