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T Dodge Consulting LLC: Living The Dream Blog
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T Dodge Consulting LLC: Living The Dream Blog is the company blog at tdodge.consulting, writing about programming. Since 2022, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “Significant Garbage Collection Improvement for Emacs”. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The comments say nothing about the writing itself. The only visible comment is a truncated Emacs tip on tuning gc-cons-threshold to balance garbage collection frequency against pause length.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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Most-linked posts?
- Significant Garbage Collection Improvement for Emacs3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-10-24
What Hacker News says?
The thing about gc-cons-threshold is that, too low a value and it will collect garbage too frequently. While a high value will drastically reduce frequency, but then GC pause will be big and you will likely feel whole system freeze and stutter when it happens. For me, 1GB is too high because I sorta notice the pause, I set it to 32MB but completely disable GC when minibuffer is active: (defun my-minibuffer-setup-hoo…
Comment linking /blog/living-the-emacs-garbage-collection-dream
on “Zed, a collaborative code editor, is now open source”Submitted Living the Eshell Dream: A Reduction in Latency from 70 Seconds to 3 Seconds as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted Significant Garbage Collection Improvement for Emacs as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Living the Eshell Dream: A Reduction in Latency from 70 Seconds to 3 Seconds as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Significant Garbage Collection Improvement for Emacs as a story · 1 points
HN discussion