From 78d7699645a52bdf0efee7efee3df34f75af8211 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Case Duckworth
Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2021 00:41:12 -0600
Subject: Replace GCMH with a dumber thing that might work as well

---
 config.org | 27 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 26 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/config.org b/config.org
index b23420f..180d009 100644
--- a/config.org
+++ b/config.org
@@ -1299,7 +1299,7 @@ the user is looking at something else.
 
 ** Garbage collection
 
-*** Garbage Collection Magic Hack                                     :package:
+*** COMMENT Garbage Collection Magic Hack                             :package:
 
 Look, I'm not going to look too deeply into this.  It's /magic/ afer
 all.
@@ -1313,6 +1313,31 @@ all.
   (blackout 'gcmh-mode)
 #+end_src
 
+*** Simple GC munging about
+
+From [[https://bling.github.io/blog/2016/01/18/why-are-you-changing-gc-cons-threshold/][bling]], from ... 2016?  Maybe this isn't great, but it's one less package so
+I'm going to try it for now.
+
+#+begin_src emacs-lisp :noweb-ref hooks
+  (defconst gc-cons-basis (* 800 1000)
+    "The basis value to which to return after a max jump.
+
+  800,000 (800 KB) is Emacs' default.")
+
+  (defun hook--gc-cons-maximize ()
+    "Set `gc-cons-threshold' to the highest possible.
+  For memory-intensive features."
+    (setq gc-cons-threshold most-positive-fixnum))
+
+  (defun hook--gc-cons-baseline ()
+    "Return `gc-cons-threshold' to `gc-cons-basis'.
+  For after memory intensive operations."
+    (setq gc-cons-threshold gc-cons-basis))
+
+  (add-hook 'minibuffer-setup-hook #'hook--gc-cons-maximize)
+  (add-hook 'minibuffer-exit-hook #'hook--gc-cons-baseline)
+#+end_src
+
 *** Garbage Collect when out of focus
 
 #+begin_src emacs-lisp :noweb-ref hooks
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