[gclist] What wrong with the GC in xemacs

[fjh@cs.mu.OZ.AU]

Nick Kramer, you wrote:
> 
> Excerpts by ianr@lsl.co.uk 
> > We all know that the GC in emacs is bad, but what is wrong with it?
> 
> I'm not convinced it *is* bad.  Ever since they put in the "do a GC if
> the user's idle" feature in Emacs 19, I have not once been interrupted
> by a GC while typing.  So by the "how much it disturbs interactive use"
> criteria, it does just fine.  I'm not really sure what other criteria
> there could be -- total execution time spent in GC?  Number of annoying
> "Garbage collecting...done" messages?

I think the number of annoying messages is a pretty important criterion.

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