From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Stealth fontification GCs a lot Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 13:56:16 -0400 Message-ID: <87r7hezhph.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> References: <01c53ee5$Blat.v2.4$0af9c0a0@zahav.net.il> <01c53f91$Blat.v2.4$46f81b40@zahav.net.il> <01c5404e$Blat.v2.4$6efb0ae0@zahav.net.il> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1113415016 15408 80.91.229.2 (13 Apr 2005 17:56:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 17:56:56 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Apr 13 19:56:53 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DLm58-0007Dv-4e for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 13 Apr 2005 19:55:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DLlfg-0000mw-0M for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 13 Apr 2005 13:29:00 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DLlej-0000a7-Lb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Apr 2005 13:28:01 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DLled-0000VU-Gs for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Apr 2005 13:27:55 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DLled-0000UL-3b for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Apr 2005 13:27:55 -0400 Original-Received: from [209.226.175.184] (helo=tomts22-srv.bellnexxia.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DLm6T-0005q0-Qs; Wed, 13 Apr 2005 13:56:42 -0400 Original-Received: from alfajor ([70.48.83.155]) by tomts22-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.10 201-253-122-130-110-20040306) with ESMTP id <20050413175615.QIZ21470.tomts22-srv.bellnexxia.net@alfajor>; Wed, 13 Apr 2005 13:56:15 -0400 Original-Received: by alfajor (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 950C9D737F; Wed, 13 Apr 2005 13:56:16 -0400 (EDT) Original-To: Eli Zaretskii In-Reply-To: <01c5404e$Blat.v2.4$6efb0ae0@zahav.net.il> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Wed, 13 Apr 2005 20:29:03 +0300") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) 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:35940 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:35940 >> The problem is that I've never noticed any positive effect of stealth >> fontification > It decreases the time it takes to page through a file. That's the theory, I'm talking about practice. >> whereas any setting, no matter how low will eat up my battery for no >> good reason. > Perhaps we should have a primitive that checks for a laptop running on > batteries, so that customizations and background ops could test for it > and behave accordingly. and now we also have power-control on servers, not to prolong battery time but to reduce heat. I really don't think it's worth the trouble to try and recognize "those cases where we can do it without harm". Stefan