gc-cons-threshold has undocumented upper limit?

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From: Ed Miller
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 1994 19:22

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When gc-cons-threshold is set to 8000000, it takes several minutes
of work to provoke a garbage collection. However, when it is set
to 9000000, garbage collection happens quite frequently. This is
not the expected behaviour.

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Ed Miller
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