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2 total messages Started by John Cooper Mon, 12 Oct 1992 17:08

#315

Author: John Cooper
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 17:08

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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.

I've glanced at lucid and it seems to be *much* faster, although it's
appears to lack some of the epoch features, viz:

o  It doesn't have a shared minibuffer in a separate screen.

o  I couldn't figure how to switch between screens (from the keyboard)
   and have lucid raise the new screen to the top of the window stack.
   In epoch I use C-z o and C-z p.

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

--
	--- John

epoch and lucid

#317

Author: 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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