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From: "Jan Djärv" <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>
To: rms@gnu.org
Cc: juri@jurta.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Saving the selection before killing
Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 11:24:31 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <469DDC4F.20106@swipnet.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1IB1MC-0008IJ-OP@fencepost.gnu.org>



Richard Stallman skrev:
>     The main problem I saw with it was working over non-local X
>     connections where it could lead to annoying and inexplicable
>     slowdowns.
> 
> Is that an observation or a theoretical conclusion?
> The question is how much slowdown this feature adds
> when there is no selection.  How long does it take
> to determine that there is no selection?

The time it takes to send a request to the X server and get a reply.  But for 
a "normal" X session, you almost always have a selection somewhere.

	Jan D.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-07-18  9:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <5fmk5pF3bo3fbU1@mid.individual.net>
     [not found] ` <mailman.3386.1184244752.32220.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-07-12 20:31   ` Saving the selection before killing (was: Selection not to be copied into kill-ring) Stefan Monnier
2007-07-12 20:45     ` Saving the selection before killing David Kastrup
2007-07-13 18:38     ` Saving the selection before killing (was: Selection not to be copied into kill-ring) Richard Stallman
2007-07-13 19:11       ` Saving the selection before killing Stefan Monnier
2007-07-14 18:00         ` Richard Stallman
2007-07-15 22:54           ` Juri Linkov
2007-07-17  3:34             ` Richard Stallman
2007-07-17  8:21               ` David Kastrup
2007-07-18  4:41                 ` Richard Stallman
2007-07-18  5:44                   ` David Kastrup
2007-07-18  9:28                     ` Jan Djärv
2007-07-18 20:53                     ` Richard Stallman
2007-07-18 21:05                       ` David Kastrup
2007-07-18  9:24                   ` Jan Djärv [this message]
2007-07-18  9:21                 ` Jan Djärv
2007-07-18 18:34                   ` Stefan Monnier
2007-07-19  7:35                     ` Jan Djärv
2007-07-19 17:15                       ` Stefan Monnier
2007-07-20  6:27                         ` Jan Djärv
2007-07-20 15:59                           ` Stefan Monnier
2007-07-20 16:50                             ` Jan Djärv
2007-07-21 16:54                               ` Richard Stallman
2007-07-21 16:54                             ` Richard Stallman
2007-07-21  4:51                           ` Richard Stallman
2007-07-21  9:22                             ` Jan Djärv
2007-07-19  4:25                   ` Richard Stallman
2007-07-19  7:44                     ` Jan Djärv
2007-07-19 21:21                       ` Richard Stallman
2007-07-20  6:33                         ` Jan Djärv
2007-07-21  4:51                           ` Richard Stallman
2007-07-21  9:28                             ` Jan Djärv
2007-07-22  1:49                               ` Richard Stallman
2007-07-22  7:55                                 ` Jan Djärv
2007-07-22 18:37                                   ` Richard Stallman
2007-07-22 20:32                                     ` Jan Djärv

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