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Describe garbage-collection-messages.
| author | Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org> |
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| date | Tue, 23 Jul 1996 15:50:58 +0000 |
| parents | 2f15f316326d |
| children | 981e116b4ac6 |
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| 343 The number of floats for which space has been obtained from the | 343 The number of floats for which space has been obtained from the |
| 344 operating system, but that are not currently being used. | 344 operating system, but that are not currently being used. |
| 345 @end table | 345 @end table |
| 346 @end deffn | 346 @end deffn |
| 347 | 347 |
| 348 @defopt garbage-collection-messages | |
| 349 If this variable is non-@code{nil}, Emacs displays a message at the | |
| 350 beginning and end of garbage collection. The default value is | |
| 351 @code{nil}, meaning there are no such messages. | |
| 352 @end defopt | |
| 353 | |
| 348 @defopt gc-cons-threshold | 354 @defopt gc-cons-threshold |
| 349 The value of this variable is the number of bytes of storage that must | 355 The value of this variable is the number of bytes of storage that must |
| 350 be allocated for Lisp objects after one garbage collection in order to | 356 be allocated for Lisp objects after one garbage collection in order to |
| 351 trigger another garbage collection. A cons cell counts as eight bytes, | 357 trigger another garbage collection. A cons cell counts as eight bytes, |
| 352 a string as one byte per character plus a few bytes of overhead, and so | 358 a string as one byte per character plus a few bytes of overhead, and so |