From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Perry E. Metzger" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Speed of keyboard macro execution? Date: Wed, 9 Dec 2015 16:39:54 -0500 Message-ID: <20151209163954.0cefcc7f@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1449697214 26168 80.91.229.3 (9 Dec 2015 21:40:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 9 Dec 2015 21:40:14 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 09 22:40:06 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1a6mSx-00037X-OR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Dec 2015 22:40:03 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37959 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a6mSw-0004BI-NP for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Dec 2015 16:40:02 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:40168) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a6mSt-0004B0-64 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Dec 2015 16:39:59 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a6mSp-0005mT-7b for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Dec 2015 16:39:59 -0500 Original-Received: from hacklheber.piermont.com ([166.84.7.14]:48781) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a6mSp-0005m9-4D for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Dec 2015 16:39:55 -0500 Original-Received: from snark.cb.piermont.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hacklheber.piermont.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8570F55E for ; Wed, 9 Dec 2015 16:39:54 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from jabberwock.cb.piermont.com (jabberwock.cb.piermont.com [10.160.2.107]) by snark.cb.piermont.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 533842DE0CF for ; Wed, 9 Dec 2015 16:39:54 -0500 (EST) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 166.84.7.14 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:196005 Archived-At: This video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWy8zzdbRIY discussed on this reddit thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/3vp583/macros_in_gnu_emacs_and_mg_speed_comparison/ discusses the fact that in some cases, keyboard macros take an awful long time to execute. (In particular, the case in question executes in a blink of an eye in the mg emacs-like editor and takes tens of minutes to execute in Gnu Emacs.) Perhaps it would be good to dig in to what is causing the issues in question... -- Perry E. Metzger perry@piermont.com