Re: Indentation and gc

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2023 12:07:47 +0100
> From: Ergus <spacibba@aol.com>
> 
> Just today I enabled the garbage-collection-messages and I found that
> indenting the buffer with `C-x h <tab>` in just ~150 C++ lines I get the
> garbage-collection message printed about 4 or 5 times before the
> indentation finishes.
> 
> So, two questions:
> 
> 1) Is this intended? if so, what's the reason? the indentation code is
> forcing gc or is it generating too much garbage?

The latter.

> 2) IF it doesn't impact performance... Is it possible somehow to improve
> the gc message to have more useful information; or at least; to control
> the no-log in order to have some outputs in the *Message* buffer?

How will a more detailed GC message help?