Subject: Re: bug#37006: 27.0.50; garbage collection not happening after 26de2d42

From: Mattias Engdegård <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2019 19:29:07 +0200

13 aug. 2019 kl. 19.04 skrev Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>:
> 
>> Regarding changes gc-cons-percentage, the effect will just be delayed to next GC --- is this really harmful?
> 
> IOW, you think that whatever this changes in user-facing behavior is
> unimportant, and we shouldn't be bothered about it.  I happen to
> disagree.

In contrast to gc-cons-threshold, we never really promised the effect of gc-cons-percentage to be immediate, and it seems unlikely that anyone would use the latter variable in such a way.