GNU bug report logs - #79074
31.0.50; Increase gc-cons-percentage in Makefiles

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: 79074 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, eller.helmut <at> gmail.com
Subject: bug#79074: 31.0.50; Increase gc-cons-percentage in Makefiles
Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2025 17:26:06 +0300

> Cc: 79074 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 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" <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>
> 
> > 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?

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