Re: Some experience with the igc branch

[Gerd Möllmann]

Óscar Fuentes <ofv@wanadoo.es> writes:

> I've using the igc branch for the past weeks. It was mostly Dart/Flutter
> development with lsp-dart / lsp-mode enabled, with all its default
> features enabled. On top of that, I use the flx completion algorithm.
>
> This setup puts a lot of stress on GC. To illustrate, on master Emacs
> after setting garbage-collection-messages to t, one can see that simply
> writing a few characters triggers GC several times, each with its
> corresponding pause, which may be very noticeable ("uh! that keypress
> didn't register... wait, there it is.") The experience is not great.
> Quite miserable, I would say. People suggest playing with
> gc-cons-threshold (I have mine set to 10'000'000) but those tricks
> simply make things a bit less awful.
>
> With igc the pauses are still there, but they much shorter and
> predictable, they no longer distract me from thinking on what I'm
> writing, which is a huge improvement. I suspect that some of those
> pauses are not related to garbage collection (executing code and moving
> data also takes time.)
>
> TL/DR: now I enjoy using Emacs with this setup and I'm no longer tempted
> to switch to other editors for this type of work.
>
> A big thank you to all involved on this feature.

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