epoch and lucid

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From: Marc Andreessen
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 09:07

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John Cooper writes:
> I'm using epoch V4.2 on a SparcStation 1+ with 28Mb of memory, and am
> finding that epoch is "Garbage Collecting" much too frequently. This is
> especially noticeable when using mh-e and gnus, but is a general
> problem.

Time between garbage collections is user-customizable.  E.g.:

(setq gc-cons-threshold 300000)

> I've glanced at lucid and it seems to be *much* faster [...]

Faster at doing what?  Redisplay?  My own experience is that it's
usually considerably slower (although I haven't tried it on a Sparc).

> I saw in the on-line lucid NEWS it mentioned a future merge with epoch.
> Is this still planned? When could this be expected?

Planned, yes.  Expected when, I dunno :-).

Marc

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Marc Andreessen
Epoch Development Team
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
marca@ncsa.uiuc.edu

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