Re: Some experience with the igc branch

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Sean Devlin <spd@toadstyle.org>
> Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2024 18:49:08 +0900
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> > > From: Gerd Möllmann <gerd.moellmann@gmail.com>
> > > Cc: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com>,  Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,
> > >  ofv@wanadoo.es,  emacs-devel@gnu.org,  eller.helmut@gmail.com,
> > >  acorallo@gnu.org
> > > Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2024 20:45:30 +0100
> > > 
> > > Pip Cet <pipcet@protonmail.com> writes:
> > > 
> > > >> Forking MPS is obviously better to avoid, if at all possible.
> > > >
> > > > Forking MPS on GNU/Linux x86-64, in particular.  I'm not sure how Gerd
> > > > feels about macOS.
> > > 
> > > My Emacs just works, but I'm meanwhile exclusively running --without-ns
> > > only, because NS is unstable for me for years, and I've given up on it.
> > 
> > So we will probably be interested to hear from someone who runs the
> > branch build --with-ns.
> 
> I use the NS build as my daily driver, and I’ve been running the scratch/igc 
> branch for a couple weeks now. I’m happy to perform tests and report any 
> problems. It’s been stable so far. (I did report bug#74966, but it sounds 
> from the investigation that it is unrelated to GC.)

Thanks, that's very good news!

> Thanks, and let me know how I can help!

Perhaps try to use more the features which require signals, like
profiler and sub-processes?

Also, if you are used to start Emacs anew frequently, try instead to
leave a session running for a long time (and use emacsclient for
one-off jobs, if you need that).

TIA