Subject: Re: bug#79074: 31.0.50; Increase gc-cons-percentage in Makefiles

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2025 17:26:06 +0300

> Cc: [email-masked]
> Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2025 10:19:34 -0400
> From:  Stefan Monnier via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
>  the Swiss army knife of text editors" <[email-masked]>
> 
> > It seems that the default value for gc-cons-percentage (10%) is very
> > conservative and hurts performance.
> 
> It is definitely very conservative.  But it's used only in
> interactive mode, not in batch mode:
> 
>     % src/emacs -Q --batch --eval '(message "%S" gc-cons-percentage)'
>     1.0
>     %

So you are saying that perhaps we should simply increase the current
value of 1.0 to 1.2, for all non-interactive sessions?