From a581a36f5550f2419e05ff1e4e1bc1a53768a55b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Laurens Miers <laurensmiers@protonmail.com>
Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2023 10:50:33 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] feat: increase garbage collection threshold always

---
 config.org | 35 +++++++++--------------------------
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-)

diff --git a/config.org b/config.org
index 1d4d065..096aac0 100644
--- a/config.org
+++ b/config.org
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
 
 * TABLE OF CONTENTS :toc:
 - [[#installation][Installation]]
+  - [[#garbage-collection][Garbage collection]]
 - [[#base-packages-to-install-first][Base packages to install first]]
   - [[#elpaca][Elpaca]]
 - [[#utils][Utils]]
@@ -23,7 +24,6 @@
   - [[#macros][Macro's]]
   - [[#goto-line][Goto-line]]
   - [[#rectangle][Rectangle]]
-  - [[#garbage-collection-gc][Garbage collection (gc)]]
   - [[#yes-or-no-questions][Yes-or-no questions]]
   - [[#emacs-fullscreen-at-startup][Emacs fullscreen at startup]]
   - [[#enable-disabled-commands][Enable disabled commands]]
@@ -116,8 +116,15 @@ This configuration requires the installation of :
       =pip install jedi flake8 importmagic autopep8 yapf=
     - =ditaa= (for ascii to image generation in org-mode)
 
-* Base packages to install first
+** Garbage collection
 
+Increase GC threshold to minimize time wasting:
+#+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
+(setq gc-cons-threshold 20000000) ;; 20 MB
+#+END_SRC
+
+
+* Base packages to install first
 ** Elpaca
 
 Replacement for built-in package manager package.el :
@@ -442,30 +449,6 @@ so rebind it to something easy to remember.
 (global-set-key (kbd "C-x r r") 'query-replace-regexp)
 #+END_SRC
 
-** Garbage collection (gc)
-
-A lot of articles/sites/posts/... about this:
-- [[https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-gnu-emacs/2007-06/msg00243.html ]]
-- https://bling.github.io/blog/2016/01/18/why-are-you-changing-gc-cons-threshold/
-- ...
-
-This just contains some hooks to stop/enable the GC at critical moments.
-I'm not touching the value except during startup.
-If I leave it too high, I got a lot of lag when using LSP mode, so just leave it at the default value.
-
-I just 'Disable' GC in the minibuffer, I don't want lags/hangups/... in the minibuffer.
-
-#+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
-(defun my-minibuffer-setup-hook ()
-  (setq gc-cons-threshold most-positive-fixnum))
-
-(defun my-minibuffer-exit-hook ()
-  (setq gc-cons-threshold 800000))
-
-(add-hook 'minibuffer-setup-hook #'my-minibuffer-setup-hook)
-(add-hook 'minibuffer-exit-hook #'my-minibuffer-exit-hook)
-#+END_SRC
-
 ** Yes-or-no questions
 
 Because I'm lazy, important yes-or-no questions can be answered with y-or-n: