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Yeah, I was trying to be funny. But it’s still interesting to me that this thread is filled with users talking about their techniques for forcing a GC while t
by GMoromisato 3y ago
Yeah, I was trying to be funny.
But it’s still interesting to me that this thread is filled with users talking about their techniques for forcing a GC while they’re getting coffee or switching tabs.
The fact that in 2024 we’re talking about users (expert users, to be fair) changing setting in their apps to optimize GC pauses makes me think something has gone wrong somewhere.
But maybe I’m just being mean because I mostly use C++.
Goes to show that it’s trade-offs all the way down.
- samus 3y agoYes, it is appreciated :-) As I said, Emacs has many ancient defaults that many people have to fiddle with to make the editor theirs. Some of them is because of a slow drift of user preferences over the generations. But memory management strategy is one area where objectively a new default strategy would make a lot of sense. One which automatically adapts to RAM size, since Emacs scales down so well, unlike its competing memory guzzlers.