From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Dave Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com>
Cc: larsi@gnus.org, 8890@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#8890: 23.3; message writing slows emacs
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2011 11:54:28 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83litovpdn.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2mxeb11ac.fsf@boostpro.com>
> From: Dave Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com>
> Cc: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>, 8890@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2011 12:39:23 -0400
>
> >> Emacs does clever screen updates, though. So if the only thing that
> >> changes is the number before the percentage, Emacs won't repaint the
> >> entire line, I think?
> >
> > True. Like I said, redisplay of the echo area is very fast.
>
> I don't think it's clever enough. Try this:
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> (let (timings)
> (dolist (reps '(1 10))
> (let ((start-time (current-time)))
> (loop for x to 10000 do
> (loop repeat reps do
> (message "message #%s" x)))
> (push (time-subtract (current-time) start-time) timings)))
> (message "%s" (mapcar 'time-to-seconds timings)))
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> I get (29.539774 2.514761)
>
> I think this shows that it takes (more than) 10x as long to write out
> the same message 10 times as it does to write it out once.
My results are different:
. in a GUI session: (16.172 2.891)
. in a -nw (TTY) session: (26.125 4.734)
The above is from an unoptimized build. Here are timings from an
optimized build:
. GUI session: (10.875 2.0)
. TTY: (19.313 3.453)
This shows that it takes 45% _less_ time to write the same message 10
times than 10x time to write the message once.
So at best the numbers are inconclusive.
Anyway, I know for a fact that Emacs does optimize screen writes in
this case. Look at the function dispnew.c:update_text_area, around
lines 3784 to 3967. I actually put a breakpoint there and saw that
only the changing number is being redrawn while running your test
code. E.g., on line 3885, I see i = 9 while stop = 11, which means
Emacs will redraw only 2 characters.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-09-16 8:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-06-18 16:45 bug#8890: 23.3; message writing slows emacs Dave Abrahams
2011-09-11 4:32 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-09-11 6:54 ` Dave Abrahams
2011-09-11 8:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-09-11 10:45 ` Dave Abrahams
2011-09-11 11:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-09-11 11:30 ` Dave Abrahams
2011-09-11 14:52 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-09-11 15:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-09-11 16:39 ` Dave Abrahams
2011-09-16 2:22 ` Dave Abrahams
2011-09-16 8:54 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2011-09-11 14:51 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-09-16 13:18 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-09-16 13:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-09-16 14:20 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-09-16 15:11 ` Dave Abrahams
2011-09-17 5:19 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-09-17 6:23 ` Dave Abrahams
2011-09-17 8:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-09-17 8:29 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-09-17 9:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-09-17 12:01 ` Juri Linkov
2011-09-17 21:06 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-09-18 6:50 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-09-18 13:16 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-09-21 19:01 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2022-04-26 13:20 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2011-09-16 15:09 ` Dave Abrahams
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