bug#40704: 28.0.50; Improve and speed up (Gnus) registry saving

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de> writes:

> Any comments on the suggested changes?

This was almost two years ago, and I had some reservations, but the
speedups are significant, so I think you should just go ahead and push.

> +         (gc-cons-threshold (max gc-cons-threshold (* 800000 500)))

Except this bit -- I don't think we should rebind gc-cons-threshold --
it should be up to the user (and may have adverse effects in
memory-constrained setups).

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