From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Making --with-wide-int the default Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2015 10:24:43 +0200 Message-ID: <83fv0agvck.fsf@gnu.org> References: <5610ED13.1010406@dancol.org> <56117F37.9060808@dancol.org> <83oag087gs.fsf@gnu.org> <83oafz70im.fsf@gnu.org> <5620AF43.4050401@cs.ucla.edu> <83k2qn6xfm.fsf@gnu.org> <5620B4FA.1000804@cs.ucla.edu> <83wptojs1r.fsf@gnu.org> <56444C66.8050506@gmx.at> <83r3jugx8g.fsf@gnu.org> <564599C5.8030404@gmx.at> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1447403126 8234 80.91.229.3 (13 Nov 2015 08:25:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2015 08:25:26 +0000 (UTC) Cc: jwiegley@gmail.com, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: martin rudalics Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 13 09:25:18 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 1Zx9fZ-0005iF-GU for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 13 Nov 2015 09:25:17 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51598 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zx9fY-0002Zo-R6 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 13 Nov 2015 03:25:16 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34014) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zx9fI-0002Y4-NM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Nov 2015 03:25:01 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zx9fF-0006BM-LV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Nov 2015 03:25:00 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout29.012.net.il ([80.179.55.185]:52577) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zx9fF-0006B8-D1; Fri, 13 Nov 2015 03:24:57 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.mtaout29.012.net.il by mtaout29.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NXQ00L00UZWMT00@mtaout29.012.net.il>; Fri, 13 Nov 2015 10:24:16 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.94.185.246]) by mtaout29.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NXQ00LZLVCFXI00@mtaout29.012.net.il>; Fri, 13 Nov 2015 10:24:15 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <564599C5.8030404@gmx.at> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 80.179.55.185 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:194330 Archived-At: > Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2015 09:05:25 +0100 > From: martin rudalics > CC: emacs-devel@gnu.org, jwiegley@gmail.com > > > E.g., many people here > > routinely run Emacs configured with run-time checks and compiled > > without optimizations, which makes it 2 - 3 times slower than the > > optimized version. > > Unfortunately I can't do that any more since last year. With run-time > checks and without optimization Emacs has become so slow that it was > virtually impossible to use it for editing. Display of text I typed > lagged behind by up to three or four characters. My point is that the configure script cannot reasonably be expected to find out that this is what will happen on a particular machine.