GNU bug report logs - #37006
27.0.50; garbage collection not happening after 26de2d42

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Joseph Mingrone <jrm <at> ftfl.ca>

Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2019 12:41:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: patch

Found in version 27.0.50

Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Mattias Engdegård <mattiase <at> acm.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: jrm <at> ftfl.ca, eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu, 37006 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#37006: 27.0.50; garbage collection not happening after 26de2d42
Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2019 19:29:07 +0200

13 aug. 2019 kl. 19.04 skrev Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>:
> 
>> 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.
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