diff --git a/vim-speedup-gc.patch b/vim-speedup-gc.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..58988d9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/vim-speedup-gc.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,76 @@
+Index: vim-7.4.580.hg.6506/src/eval.c
+===================================================================
+--- vim-7.4.580.hg.6506.orig/src/eval.c
++++ vim-7.4.580.hg.6506/src/eval.c
+@@ -6927,48 +6927,51 @@ garbage_collect()
+ free_unref_items(copyID)
+     int copyID;
+ {
+-    dict_T	*dd;
+-    list_T	*ll;
++    dict_T	*dd, *dd_next;
++    list_T	*ll, *ll_next;
+     int		did_free = FALSE;
+ 
+     /*
+      * Go through the list of dicts and free items without the copyID.
+      */
+-    for (dd = first_dict; dd != NULL; )
++    for (dd = first_dict; dd != NULL; ) {
+ 	if ((dd->dv_copyID & COPYID_MASK) != (copyID & COPYID_MASK))
+ 	{
+ 	    /* Free the Dictionary and ordinary items it contains, but don't
+ 	     * recurse into Lists and Dictionaries, they will be in the list
+ 	     * of dicts or list of lists. */
++        dd_next = dd->dv_used_next;
+ 	    dict_free(dd, FALSE);
+ 	    did_free = TRUE;
+-
+-	    /* restart, next dict may also have been freed */
+-	    dd = first_dict;
++	    dd = dd_next;
+ 	}
+-	else
++	else {
+ 	    dd = dd->dv_used_next;
++    }
++    }
+ 
+     /*
+      * Go through the list of lists and free items without the copyID.
+      * But don't free a list that has a watcher (used in a for loop), these
+      * are not referenced anywhere.
+      */
+-    for (ll = first_list; ll != NULL; )
++    for (ll = first_list; ll != NULL; ) {
+ 	if ((ll->lv_copyID & COPYID_MASK) != (copyID & COPYID_MASK)
+ 						      && ll->lv_watch == NULL)
+ 	{
+ 	    /* Free the List and ordinary items it contains, but don't recurse
+ 	     * into Lists and Dictionaries, they will be in the list of dicts
+ 	     * or list of lists. */
++
++        ll_next = ll->lv_used_next;
+ 	    list_free(ll, FALSE);
+ 	    did_free = TRUE;
+-
+-	    /* restart, next list may also have been freed */
+-	    ll = first_list;
++	    ll = ll_next;
+ 	}
+-	else
++	else {
+ 	    ll = ll->lv_used_next;
++    }
++    }
+ 
+     return did_free;
+ }
+@@ -7125,6 +7128,7 @@ dict_free(d, recurse)
+ 
+     /* Lock the hashtab, we don't want it to resize while freeing items. */
+     hash_lock(&d->dv_hashtab);
++    assert(d->dv_hashtab.ht_locked > 0);
+     todo = (int)d->dv_hashtab.ht_used;
+     for (hi = d->dv_hashtab.ht_array; todo > 0; ++hi)
+     {
diff --git a/vim.changes b/vim.changes
index 40e6a91..ca36d1a 100644
--- a/vim.changes
+++ b/vim.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Fri Jan 30 09:45:18 UTC 2015 - idonmez@suse.com
+
+- Add vim-speedup-gc.patch to improve garbage collection performance.
+  Based on https://github.com/neovim/neovim/pull/1761 (boo#899747)
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Thu Jan 29 12:25:06 UTC 2015 - idonmez@suse.com
 
diff --git a/vim.spec b/vim.spec
index b0fcccd..1b8d499 100644
--- a/vim.spec
+++ b/vim.spec
@@ -105,6 +105,7 @@ Patch18:        %{name}-7.3-filetype_spec.patch
 Patch19:        %{name}-7.3-diff_check.patch
 Patch21:        %{name}-7.3-filetype_changes.patch
 Patch22:        %{name}-7.4-filetype_mine.patch
+Patch23:        %{name}-speedup-gc.patch
 Patch100:       vim-7.1.314-CVE-2009-0316-debian.patch
 Patch101:       vim73-no-static-libpython.patch
 %{perl_requires}
@@ -187,6 +188,7 @@ cp %{SOURCE23} runtime/syntax/apparmor.vim
 %patch19 -p1
 %patch21 -p1
 %patch22 -p1
+%patch23 -p1
 %patch100 -p1
 %patch101
 cp %{SOURCE3} %{SOURCE4} %{SOURCE5} %{SOURCE8} %{SOURCE10} .