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> Basic answer is if there are complaints with the garbage collector causing stalls or other hiccups, then moving to a faster one could help. Is that an actual
by krylon 9y ago
> Basic answer is if there are complaints with the garbage collector causing stalls or other hiccups, then moving to a faster one could help.
Is that an actual problem, though?
Maybe I just don't push Emacs that far, but I have never felt GC performance to be much of a problem on even remotely capable hardware (say, anything at least as fast as a Raspberry Pi model 2).
Plus, Emacs allows the user to configure the frequency at which the garbage collector kicks in. Tweaking gc-cons-threshold has been entirely sufficient for my needs.
- taeric 9y agoI personally doubt it is much of a problem. However, that doesn't mean I personally think nobody should try it. Will be interesting to see if any results follow. To your point, though, I suspect better async processing would be of much greater benefit.