It’s been 500k since 1996. Computers ship with significantly more RAM
now. As discussed about a month ago.
XEmacs Trunk source patch:
Diff command: cvs -q diff -u
Files affected: src/alloc.c
Index: src/alloc.c
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RCS file: /pack/xemacscvs/XEmacs/xemacs/src/alloc.c,v
retrieving revision 1.106
diff -u -u -r1.106 alloc.c
--- src/alloc.c 2005/02/03 16:14:04 1.106
+++ src/alloc.c 2005/02/27 18:49:10
@@ -5340,7 +5340,7 @@
funcall_alloca_count = 0;
#if 1
- gc_cons_threshold = 500000; /* XEmacs change */
+ gc_cons_threshold = 4194304; /* XEmacs change */
#else
gc_cons_threshold = 15000; /* debugging */
#endif
--
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