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Jesper Harder <harder@ifa.au.dk> writes:

> And this is with `gc-cons-threshold' increased to 4,000,000:

Right.  Gnus feels much more faster with this.

> I don't know if it's worth doing something about it -- maybe parts of
> the code that are likely to generate large amounts of lisp data should
> have `gc-cons-threshold' increased, or maybe people should just increase
> it themself if they want a faster Gnus (and memory permits it).

I wonder if perhaps the Emacs default should be changed, if it hasn't
been touched in years.  Computers might have gotten more memory since
the default value was set.