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#8890
23.3; message writing slows emacs
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Reported by: Dave Abrahams <dave <at> boostpro.com>
Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2011 16:46:02 UTC
Severity: normal
Found in version 23.3
Fixed in version 29.1
Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.
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Message #23 received at 8890 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):
on Sun Sep 11 2011, Eli Zaretskii <eliz-AT-gnu.org> wrote:
>> From: Dave Abrahams <dave <at> boostpro.com>
>
>> Cc: larsi <at> gnus.org, 8890 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
>> Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2011 06:45:39 -0400
>>
>> If you're just updating percentage complete, please don't do
>> it more than once every .5 seconds... at the fastest!
>
> Agreed, but that's something for the application programmers to
> consider, not for the infrastructure.
Well, not necessarily. If emacs had a built-in, sanctioned "progress"
library, people could use that and it would take care of the problem.
>> > Anyway, can you describe the situation in which you see these flashing
>> > messages? The only one I can think of is when Emacs starts up and
>> > restores a previous session. Is that your use case, or did you see
>> > this in other situations?
>>
>> Yeah, there's something in Gnus, perhaps article expiry, that seems slow
>> mostly because gnus-verbose defaults to 7 and it writes out gobs of
>> messages. When I turned gnus-verbose down it seemed a lot faster.
>
> Maybe there's something specific to Gnus, then. In which case it's a
> good thing we have Lars listening ;-)
Maybe. But it seems like a common enough issue that emacs should
provide application programmers with some tools for avoiding it.
--
Dave Abrahams
BoostPro Computing
http://www.boostpro.com
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