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

> jas@extundo.com (Simon Josefsson) writes:
>
>> 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.
>
> I think the last time it was changed was in Emacs 20.x:
>
> GNU Emacs 18.59.1 of Tue Jul 25 1995 on cache.zk3.dec.com 
> (dec-osf) gc-cons-threshold's value is 100,000

Available memory in machines have probably increased more than 4 
times since 1995.  The XEmacs default seem to be 500,000.