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Re: When are unused overlays garbage collected?


From: Marcin Borkowski
Subject: Re: When are unused overlays garbage collected?
Date: Mon, 24 May 2021 08:33:30 +0200
User-agent: mu4e 1.1.0; emacs 28.0.50

On 2021-05-24, at 07:05, Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text 
editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> wrote:

> Marcin Borkowski wrote:
>
>> So I assume that if I `delete-overlay', it means it cannot
>> be necessarily garbage-collected yet. So, when /can/ an
>> overlay be really "deleted", meaning the memory it occupied
>> is freed?
>
> (setq inhibit-default-init t)
> (setq garbage-collection-messages nil)
> (setq gc-cons-threshold 3000000)

How is that supposed to help me?

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Marcin Borkowski
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