Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!apple!oliveb!mipos3!nate@hobbes.intel.com From: nate@hobbes.intel.com (Nate Hess) Newsgroups: gnu.emacs Subject: Re: Garbage Collecting (and Memory Usage) Message-ID: <880@mipos3.intel.com> Date: 8 Sep 89 18:38:20 GMT References: Sender: news@mipos3.intel.com Reply-To: woodstock@hobbes.intel.com (Nate Hess) Distribution: gnu Organization: Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA Lines: 11 In-reply-to: kindred@dopey.telesci.UUCP (David L Kindred (Dave)) Posting-Front-End: Gnews 2.0 If your primary interest is making gc less obtrusive, then the best thing to do, probably, is to set the variable `gc-cons-threshold' to 1000000, or some similarly high number. Emacs will then seldom garbage collect. Of course, when it does, it takes a while. :-)# --woodstock -- "What I like is when you're looking and thinking and looking and thinking...and suddenly you wake up." - Hobbes woodstock@hobbes.intel.com ...!{decwrl|hplabs!oliveb}!intelca!mipos3!nate