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Is disabling idle GC measurably better?
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I would think that an idle GC would be well-suited for an IDE. There are long periods where the application is not going anything which could be used for GC.
The argument presented by @ndmitchell ([here](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/34588057/why-does-shake-recommend-disabling-idle-garbage-collection/)) is that "in a build system", there are usually external tasks which are running for over 0.3s. However, as we have observed in ghcide, most actions run for a very short amount of time (see haskell/ghcide#503)
What happens in my experience when using `ghcide` is that hovering triggers a GC which causes a noticeably pause with a large heap.
We should actually come up with a metric to measure which one is better. These flags were added in haskell/ghcide#329 by @pepeiborra who claimed that it reduced hover time by `4s`, but why would that be the case? The way to investigate is to record an eventlog I think.
Related to haskell/ghcide#512 as well.
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