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# emacs-gc-stats: Does garbage collection actually slow down Emacs?
Ihor Radchenko (he) - Mastodon: <https://emacs.ch/@yantar92>, <mailto:yantar92@posteo.net>

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Is Emacs responsiveness really affected by slow garbage collector?
Should \`gc-cons-threshold' be increased during startup?
Or maybe during the whole Emacs session?

I will try to answer these questions using the real data collected from
Emacs users who installed
<https://elpa.gnu.org/packages/emacs-gc-stats.html> package and submitted
their results to <https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-gc-stats/>.



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