GNU bug report logs - #61490
[PATCH 0/1] Increase BLOCK_ALIGN from 2¹⁰to 2¹⁵

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Konstantin Kharlamov <Hi-Angel <at> yandex.ru>

Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2023 20:01:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: patch

Merged with 61489

Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #23 received at 61490 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Robert Pluim <rpluim <at> gmail.com>
To: Konstantin Kharlamov <Hi-Angel <at> yandex.ru>
Cc: 61490 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#61490: [PATCH v2] Increase BLOCK_ALIGN from 1024 to 32768
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2023 16:29:01 +0100

>>>>> On Thu, 16 Feb 2023 18:05:09 +0300, Konstantin Kharlamov <Hi-Angel <at> yandex.ru> said:

    Konstantin> Originally discovered by Tyler Dodge in his article "Significant Garbage
    Konstantin> Collection Improvement For Emacs".

    Konstantin> While testing this change on Archlinux system with Intel i5-7200U CPU,
    Konstantin> average time of garbage collection gets reduced by ≈25%. Other users
    Konstantin> report improvements up to 50%. While monitoring PSS of emacs with and
    Konstantin> without customizations loaded before and after the patch, no
    Konstantin> statistically significant differences were discovered. So overall, this
    Konstantin> change is a win.

I havenʼt tested it yet, but it looks reasonable.

Procedural nit: if you put the bug number in the commit message rather
than the Subject, then 'git am' will strip the [PATCH v2] prefix for
us.

Robert
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