gcmh
The Garbage Collector Magic Hack (by emacsmirror)
emacs
Mirror of GNU Emacs (by sebastiansturm)
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0.0 | 0.0 | |
over 3 years ago | 9 months ago | |
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- | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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gcmh
Posts with mentions or reviews of gcmh.
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and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-30.
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The original magic Emacs garbage collection hack
cf. https://github.com/emacsmirror/gcmh (the author's [=Andrea Corallo's] Emacs package "GCMH - the Garbage Collector Magic Hack")
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is it just me, or LSP mode is very slow in emacs?
A lot of people use way higher values than 800 KB without any problems. As a matter of fact, I've been using 256 MB for a very long time, haven't noticed any issues with it. So I wouldn't call 1 GB madness, it can be perfectly fine in some cases, especially if one uses gcmh, so it has a high chance that GCs will happen when the user doesn't interact with emacs (I also setup emacs to do GC when emacs loses focus. This means that GC pause is invisible most of the time for me). I strongly prefer very rare, short GC pauses than microstuttering all the time. Also, some operations apply a lot of pressure to the memory system, and do hundreds of GCs with the default setting, so most of the CPU time is spent in the GC when these operations run. Increasing gc-cons-threshold makes such operations much faster which means less pauses.
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Setting up a fundraiser for multi-threaded Emacs, any thoughts on this?
One possible solution is to switch to a LSP approach. You should also take a look at the garbage-collector-magic-hack package: https://github.com/emacsmirror/gcmh
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Chosing an Emacs Distro on M1 OS X
If you experience some lag, my first advice would be to install the GCMH package. It basically changes the garbage-collection rules to ensure that most garbage collection will happen in small bouts while Emacs is idle. After installing it I've never had my Emacs lag on me. This wouldn't address the retina-display issues you mentioned, but I've never experienced those with emacs-plus.
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Will we be ever seeing multithreading in emacs?
I've seen gcmh recommended as a library that configures the garbage collector for you. Not sure if it is truly a "one size fits all" solution though.
- make emacs run 100% faster and snappier
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Configuring emacs
I’d add that for 1) beacon is a good package. For 2), this may be an issue where you have multiple emacs configuration files. This is a serious problem. 3) be patient, and use the magic GC hack. To add to that, you should probably set the GC threshold to be high. 4) projectile? 5)emacs -nw.
emacs
Posts with mentions or reviews of emacs.
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Lsp Bridge: A blazingly fast LSP client alternative to the original LSP project for Emacs
Rebases trivially but if you don't want to do that, https://github.com/sebastiansturm/emacs/tree/json-rpc-30 is based on emacs master (from a few days ago or so)
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is it just me, or LSP mode is very slow in emacs?
there's also a version I regularly rebase on top of Emacs master (https://github.com/sebastiansturm/emacs/tree/json-rpc-30), but as yyoncho said it shouldn't affect font rendering at all. If your previous version of Emacs was sufficiently old though, maybe you ran into the fact that Emacs now (since v28 or so, not sure; https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/qsd3nm/psa_emacs_now_distinguishes_between_regular_and/) handles regular/medium font weights differently?
What are some alternatives?
When comparing gcmh and emacs you can also consider the following projects:
beacon - A light that follows your cursor around so you don't lose it!
lsp-bridge - A blazingly fast LSP client for Emacs
emacs-faff-theme - Emacs Faff Theme - a light theme based on the Emacs default, extensively tweaked.
emacs - Mirror of GNU Emacs
lambda-emacs - Emacs distribution with sane defaults, pre-configured packages, and useful functions.
GNU Emacs - Mirror of GNU Emacs
build-emacs-macos - Build script for emacs and macos
emacs-libvterm - Emacs libvterm integration
gcmh
lsp-mode - Emacs client/library for the Language Server Protocol
lem - Common Lisp editor/IDE with high expansibility
uemacs - Random version of microemacs with my private modificatons