bug#37321: 27.0.50; Excessive gc in a use case (el-search)

[Michael Heerdegen]

Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> writes:

> I don't see one offhand, sorry. Except for the obvious way, which
> depends on a larger question: what's different about el-search?

El-searching produces a lot of garbage on the way, since I must
continuously `read'.  Not a very special thing, though.

> That is, if you are observing significantly better performance with
> gc-cons-percentage set to 0.8, shouldn't we set it to be that value by
> default in Emacs?

Good question.  Could it have downsides (I guess garbage collection
would happen less often but take longer then so one could get noticeable
interrupts)?


Regards,

Michael