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24.3.50; Redisplay issue with transient-mark-mode

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Message #34 received at 13623 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: Dmitry Antipov <dmantipov <at> yandex.ru>
Cc: wence <at> gmx.li, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 13623 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#13623: 24.3.50; Redisplay issue with transient-mark-mode
Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2013 09:31:44 -0500

>> And I'm not sure this is worth optimizing anyway: region changes are
>> relatively rare and almost always driven by user input, so I don't
>> think redisplay will become significantly faster as result of any
>> optimizations in this area.
> I have a strong suspicion that this also applies to ~50% of xdisp.c
> unless you're on 2400bps tty or remote X connection via 33600bps modem.

For my use case, the optimisations that matter are the ones that avoid
looking at the unmodified (and mostly all iconified) frames when I work
within a frame or switch between two frames (or maybe 3 at most: the
origin, the destination and the minibuffer-only frame).


        Stefan

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