From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#32729: Xemacs 23 times as fast as GNU Emacs Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2019 21:44:48 +0300 Message-ID: <835zkslc2n.fsf@gnu.org> References: <871rviobu2.fsf@gnus.org> <5b3b2f98-20e6-596d-2c02-0821def8ae40@orcon.net.nz> <87wod8blsl.fsf@gnus.org> Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="73879"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" Cc: psainty@orcon.net.nz, layer@franz.com, benjamin.benninghofen@airbus.com, 32729@debbugs.gnu.org, 32728@debbugs.gnu.org To: Lars Ingebrigtsen Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Oct 13 20:46:15 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1iJise-000J43-Mq for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 13 Oct 2019 20:46:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41588 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iJisd-0002rK-Gu for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 13 Oct 2019 14:46:11 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:56598) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iJisV-0002r5-KR for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Oct 2019 14:46:04 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iJisU-00066G-Ho for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Oct 2019 14:46:03 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:56373) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iJisU-000661-Es for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Oct 2019 14:46:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1iJisU-000664-Bc for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Oct 2019 14:46:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2019 18:46:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 32729 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 32729-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B32729.157099230519827 (code B ref 32729); Sun, 13 Oct 2019 18:46:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 32729) by debbugs.gnu.org; 13 Oct 2019 18:45:05 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:36961 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1iJirY-00059E-5a for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 13 Oct 2019 14:45:04 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:47440) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1iJirW-00056n-Nq; Sun, 13 Oct 2019 14:45:03 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:34717) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iJirR-0004vx-1r; Sun, 13 Oct 2019 14:44:57 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=4907 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1iJirP-0001qM-AL; Sun, 13 Oct 2019 14:44:55 -0400 In-reply-to: <87wod8blsl.fsf@gnus.org> (message from Lars Ingebrigtsen on Sun, 13 Oct 2019 19:24:58 +0200) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 209.51.188.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:169139 Archived-At: > From: Lars Ingebrigtsen > Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2019 19:24:58 +0200 > Cc: Kevin Layer , "Benninghofen, > Benjamin Dr." , 32729@debbugs.gnu.org, > 32728@debbugs.gnu.org > > It is unfortunate that stuff like this makes Emacs hang, though. It'd > be nice if Emacs had a "OK, we just give up" mode if the buffer is too > intractable, where "too intractable" may be, for instance, if it finds a > line that's longer than a few megabytes, perhaps? > > I don't know what "just give up" would entail, though. Just put point > at the start of the buffer and refuse to scroll or do anything? Just > about anything would be better than the current situation where you have > to kill Emacs if you're playing with (some) binary files and try to > display the buffer. The problem is exactly to decide what to do when you "give up" in a way that will still get you a functional editor that can display something reasonable.