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: default large-file-warning-threshold Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2014 21:00:57 +0200 Message-ID: <83ppc36vpy.fsf@gnu.org> References: <21606.10799.112099.788101@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> <1753218.Ot8JCqssfN@descartes> <546AABCF.8030705@cs.ucla.edu> <9xioico2nm.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <83k32s9zm5.fsf@gnu.org> <547A4A1B.9060807@cs.ucla.edu> <20141130101201.3a2625e6@forcix> <547B4285.8070901@cs.ucla.edu> <83wq6c8s47.fsf@gnu.org> <547B9127.2080508@cs.ucla.edu> <878uismg2o.fsf@wanadoo.es> <874mtgmfiu.fsf@wanadoo.es> <547C00BE.5050506@cs.ucla.edu> <83egsj8j0i.fsf@gnu.org> <547CAFE5.6080404@cs.ucla.edu> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1417460474 17562 80.91.229.3 (1 Dec 2014 19:01:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2014 19:01:14 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ofv@wanadoo.es, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Dec 01 20:01:07 2014 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 1XvWDZ-00019z-V7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 01 Dec 2014 20:01:06 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33420 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XvWDZ-000121-MQ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 01 Dec 2014 14:01:05 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48780) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XvWDR-00011h-Nm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Dec 2014 14:01:02 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XvWDM-0001yO-HQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Dec 2014 14:00:57 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout29.012.net.il ([80.179.55.185]:50129) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XvWDM-0001y4-96 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Dec 2014 14:00:52 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.mtaout29.012.net.il by mtaout29.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NFX006003BDIE00@mtaout29.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Dec 2014 20:58:42 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by mtaout29.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NFX0056D3DUM110@mtaout29.012.net.il>; Mon, 01 Dec 2014 20:58:42 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <547CAFE5.6080404@cs.ucla.edu> 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:178624 Archived-At: > Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2014 10:13:57 -0800 > From: Paul Eggert > Cc: ofv@wanadoo.es, emacs-devel@gnu.org > > On 12/01/2014 07:52 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > I doubt that the speed of decoding could be significantly increased. > > We don't need to increase decoding speed to make Emacs perform much > better on large files. When I first visit a file, all I need to see is > the start of the file on my screen. Emacs needs only to decode the > initial part of the file to do that. It can decode the rest of the file > as I'm looking at the first part. Sounds like a good project to me. > Although this sort of thing would be a nontrivial change to Emacs, > it's doable and it would already be done if performance on large > files were a priority for Emacs developers. Well, you know that there's no such thing as "a priority for Emacs developers", right? There are itches to scratch, that's all.