From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: redisplay system of emacs Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 11:17:01 +0100 Organization: Organization?!? Message-ID: <87ljfhkyg2.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <27349166.post@talk.nabble.com> <83bpge50k5.fsf@gnu.org> <87vdem8gly.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <87k4v1xm4l.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1264760273 6201 80.91.229.12 (29 Jan 2010 10:17:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 10:17:53 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 29 11:17:44 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Nanv5-0007WC-OL for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 29 Jan 2010 11:17:44 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:54028 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Nanv5-0002pA-3u for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 29 Jan 2010 05:17:43 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Nanuq-0002kc-AV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Jan 2010 05:17:28 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Nanuj-0002fh-BP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Jan 2010 05:17:25 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=42877 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Nanuj-0002fK-48 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Jan 2010 05:17:21 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:37578) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Nanug-0006JY-MI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Jan 2010 05:17:19 -0500 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Nanud-0007KZ-Bk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Jan 2010 11:17:15 +0100 Original-Received: from p5b2c2a49.dip.t-dialin.net ([91.44.42.73]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 29 Jan 2010 11:17:15 +0100 Original-Received: from dak by p5b2c2a49.dip.t-dialin.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 29 Jan 2010 11:17:15 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 22 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: p5b2c2a49.dip.t-dialin.net X-Face: 2FEFf>]>q>2iw=B6, xrUubRI>pR&Ml9=ao@P@i)L:\urd*t9M~y1^:+Y]'C0~{mAl`oQuAl \!3KEIp?*w`|bL5qr,H)LFO6Q=qx~iH4DN; i"; /yuIsqbLLCh/!U#X[S~(5eZ41to5f%E@'ELIi$t^ Vc\LWP@J5p^rst0+('>Er0=^1{]M9!p?&:\z]|;&=NP3AhB!B_bi^]Pfkw User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.90 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:5iVDGAwuVr9pfWLGtw9R3K5Ns3Y= X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:120634 Archived-At: Paul R writes: > The performance of those engines has gotten surprisingly good, and is > still improving at a very fast rate. It is nowhere near workable for large documents. Not web pages, documents. > I would be interested to have some real-case benchmarks. In the > meantime I pasted the whole wikipedia article into > http://ckeditor.com/demo then edited some text in the middle of the > page. It was not blazing fast to be honnest, but still usable on my 10 > years old hardware. Uh, Emacs needs to work without noticeable delays and with syntax highlighting for documents of _book_ size, easily containing thousands of pages. In fact, the size of the total document should not affect editing speed. And we are not just talking "editing" or fixed documents here: run-off compilation/log output needs to be fast. -- David Kastrup