GNU bug report logs - #8890
23.3; message writing slows emacs

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Package: emacs;

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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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: Dave Abrahams <dave <at> boostpro.com>, 8890 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#8890: 23.3; message writing slows emacs
Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2011 17:06:46 -0400
> If it's been less than (say) 50th of a second since the previous
> message, then don't message anything.  However, set up a timer in a
> 100th of a second's time to display that message -- if nothing else has
> been displayed in the mean time.

That's much too tricky to implement.  Making it reliable is going to
be painful.  Much easier to allow progress-reporter-update to output
non-percentage messages (e.g. for bytecomp, the changing part is not
a percentage but a function name).


        Stefan




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