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Re: gc notes available


On 981105, Harvey J. Stein wrote:
> 3. Emacs has a non generational GC that's on the slow side.  Does its
>    pauses cause a significant degradation of it's UI?

Yes, at least it used to.  It hasn't annoyed me much recently, but I'm not
sure if that's because I've gotten used to it, because my machines are
faster/have more memory, or because it's gotten better at doing GC when I'm
not actively typing.