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abbrev edits - delay when saving

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Message #49 received at 14518 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: phillip.lord <at> russet.org.uk (Phillip Lord)
To: Andreas Röhler <andreas.roehler <at> online.de>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 14518 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, emacs-devel <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: C and Emacs Lisp code parts
Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2016 16:27:58 +0100

Andreas Röhler <andreas.roehler <at> online.de> writes:

> On 06.07.2016 00:48, John Wiegley wrote:
>>>>>>> Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
>>> In which you were asked to provide some numbers, but gave none. Please do
>>> provide them, and perhaps that bug could be taken care of.
>> Until we have numbers, no action will be taken here. I am still of the
>> position that *more* code should be moved from C to Emacs Lisp, and not the
>> other way around.
>>
>> If there are cases where this might be a bad idea, measurement is needed to
>> convince me. As others have said, performance is a complex beast, and human
>> guesses about how a modern machine operates are more often wrong than not.
>>
>
> M-x elp-instrument-function RET define-abbrevs RET
> do some edits
> M-x elp-results RET
>
>
> abbrev--describe               36050       15.224345396 0.0004223119
> abbrev-edit-save-buffer        1           8.034011581   8.034011581
> abbrev-edit-save-to-file       1           8.033998314   8.033998314
> abbrev--write                  18025       5.8414600190 0.0003240754
> define-abbrevs                 1           1.334075568   1.334075568
> abbrev-get                     107835      0.5151135200 4.776...e-06
> abbrev-table-get               36964       0.1173239610 3.174...e-06
> abbrev-table-put               18320       0.0690998279 3.771...e-06
> abbrev-table-empty-p           584         0.010703864 1.832...e-05
> abbrev-table-p                 584         0.0050513859 8.649...e-06
> abbreviate-file-name           91          0.002899625 3.186...e-05
> abbrev-table-name              2           0.000254252   0.000127126


But what do these numbers mean? Is this better or worse than previously,
and what are you saving?

Phil

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