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adchari on Jan 30, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: The original magic Emacs garbage collection hack (...

I've done this for a while, increasing the threshold and collecting every time I tab away from an emacs window

(setq gc-cons-threshold 100000000) (add-function :after after-focus-change-function 'garbage-collect)

kazinator on Jan 30, 2024 [–]

The refinement in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39191012 seems useful.

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