Re: Indentation and gc

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>
> Cc: spacibba@aol.com, arne_bab@web.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2023 15:58:37 +0000
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> >> Now, we have https://elpa.gnu.org/devel/emacs-gc-stats.html
> >> 
> >> Should we first try to collect existing usage stats, before asking
> >> people to try non-standard GC settings?
> >
> > We could do both.  But I don't think I understand what you mean by
> > "existing usage stats".
> 
> I meant to ask users install emacs-gc-stats and enable
> emacs-gc-stats-mode, leaving all other Emacs GC as they are now. After
> several weeks, we will ask these users to share the results.
> This will provide the baseline.

Yes, we definitely need a baseline.  But the baseline should be based
on the default values of the GC parameters, so people who share their
statistics should take care to reset them to the default values.

> If we want to ask about trying non-standard GC settings, then we first
> need to decide which GC settings we should ask about:
> `gc-cons-threshold' values; `gc-cons-percentage' values; the code from
> <jwvjzwbxp4p.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org">https://yhetil.org/emacs-devel/jwvjzwbxp4p.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>;
> maybe something else.

I don't think it matters, we should just need people to report the
values they used.