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28.2; uninterruptible hang in vc-diff buffer

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Sean Whitton <spwhitton <at> spwhitton.name>
Cc: dmitry <at> gutov.dev, tom <at> tromey.com, 61942 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#61942: 28.2; uninterruptible hang in vc-diff buffer
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2025 10:26:31 +0200

> Cc: 61942 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> From: Sean Whitton <spwhitton <at> spwhitton.name>
> Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2025 11:48:58 +0800
> 
> Hello,
> 
> On Fri 14 Mar 2025 at 02:24am +02, Dmitry Gutov wrote:
> 
> > On 11/03/2025 13:29, Sean Whitton wrote:
> >> Hello Dmitry, Tom,
> >> Do we have a reproducer for this?  Otherwise, I'd like to suggest
> >> closing the report for now.
> >
> > The reproducer for the scenario I have in mind is opening a diff, for the
> > first time in a session, that references one of the larger .c files.
> >
> > For example, from the current Emacs master, launch 'C-x v L' (root log), and
> > from there move to
> >
> >   * ab5bfcebddf..: Po Lu 2025-03-10 Fix bug#76805
> >
> > and press 'd'. The first time I do it, in a session, takes about 600ms.
> >
> > Quitting or killing the diff buffer and repeating the action makes it instant
> > because the file buffer stays in diff--cached-revision-buffers, for some time.
> 
> Thank you both for your replies.
> 
> Dmitry, regarding your reproducer, on my laptop (bought late 2020)
> I can't discern a difference before or after the caching.
> 
> Tom, it would be great if you could try Dmitry's suggestion and see if
> it makes a difference.

As an observer from the peanut gallery, may I point out that 600 ms is
a very far cry from "uninterruptible hang"?  So personally, I'm not
sure that what Dmitry reported is the same problem as the one due to
which Tom submitted this bug report.

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