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| author | Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> | 2005-07-21 19:03:13 +0000 |
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| committer | Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> | 2005-07-21 19:03:13 +0000 |
| commit | 0c17e67cf2b5ab64c9e134f03942f173a956338c (patch) | |
| tree | 047b98b40d6fba25681f546e74682764d968552b /lispref | |
| parent | 1d256714e5a772b4e0780c908ebeee1ce19c92fb (diff) | |
| download | emacs-0c17e67cf2b5ab64c9e134f03942f173a956338c.tar.gz | |
(Garbage Collection): Add gc-cons-percentage.
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| -rw-r--r-- | lispref/ChangeLog | 8 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | lispref/internals.texi | 14 |
2 files changed, 19 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/lispref/ChangeLog b/lispref/ChangeLog index c75d8060bff..5ed7f2165ce 100644 --- a/lispref/ChangeLog +++ b/lispref/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,7 @@ +2005-07-21 Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> + + * internals.texi (Garbage Collection): Add gc-cons-percentage. + 2005-07-18 Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org> * commands.texi (Accessing Events): @@ -13,8 +17,8 @@ 2005-07-13 Luc Teirlinck <teirllm@auburn.edu> - * customize.texi (Variable Definitions): Add - `custom-initialize-safe-set' and `custom-initialize-safe-default'. + * customize.texi (Variable Definitions): + Add `custom-initialize-safe-set' and `custom-initialize-safe-default'. `standard-value' is a list too. (Defining New Types): Use @key{RET} instead of @key{ret}. diff --git a/lispref/internals.texi b/lispref/internals.texi index 5a83c82ff5f..61b643bd54a 100644 --- a/lispref/internals.texi +++ b/lispref/internals.texi @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ @c -*-texinfo-*- @c This is part of the GNU Emacs Lisp Reference Manual. -@c Copyright (C) 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1998, 1999 +@c Copyright (C) 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1998, 1999, 2005 @c Free Software Foundation, Inc. @c See the file elisp.texi for copying conditions. @setfilename ../info/internals @@ -368,6 +368,18 @@ until the subsequent garbage collection, at which time @code{garbage-collect} will set the threshold back to 10,000. @end defopt +@defopt gc-cons-percentage +The value of this variable is the minimum portion of the heap that +should be allocated before a garbage collection takes place. It is +used only if the specified size is larger than +@code{gc-cons-threshold}. + +As the heap size increases, the time to perform a garbage collection +increases, so in order to compensate, this variable tries to +correspondingly reduce the frequency of collection by letting Emacs +allocate more memory between each collection. +@end defopt + The value returned by @code{garbage-collect} describes the amount of memory used by Lisp data, broken down by data type. By contrast, the function @code{memory-limit} provides information on the total amount of |