diff --git a/libguile/jit.c b/libguile/jit.c
index d1aa4fc99..2e273bcbc 100644
--- a/libguile/jit.c
+++ b/libguile/jit.c
@@ -124,7 +124,7 @@
 
 
 
-static const uint32_t default_jit_threshold = 50000;
+static const uint32_t default_jit_threshold = 1000;
 
 /* Threshold for when to JIT-compile a function.  Set from the
    GUILE_JIT_THRESHOLD environment variable.  */