GNU bug report logs - #26710
project-find-regexp blocks the UI

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Hariharan Rangasamy <hariharanrangasamy <at> gmail.com>

Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2017 16:55:03 UTC

Severity: wishlist

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Message #49 received at 26710 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
Cc: hariharanrangasamy <at> gmail.com, 26710 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#26710: Fwd: 25.2; project-find-regexp makes emacs use 100% cpu
Date: Wed, 03 May 2017 05:34:47 +0300
> Cc: hariharanrangasamy <at> gmail.com, 26710 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
> Date: Wed, 3 May 2017 03:14:52 +0300
> 
> On 02.05.2017 20:26, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> > The sentinel/filter won't be called at all if keyboard/mouse input is
> > available.  Once they are called, if each call takes a long processing
> > time, the UI could feel sluggish, yes.
> 
> Hmm, and if we're in "many calls, each of them fairly fast" situation?

Then there should be no problem with UI responsiveness.

> Sounds like the UI might be quite usable (but doing anything with it 
> would slow down the processing of search results).

Correct.




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