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: Display slowness that is painful Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2006 09:02:30 -0500 Message-ID: <87u0bhkghu.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> References: <87slr5c78p.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <877j8fx43q.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87mzhaqp7p.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87wtgel266.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <85wtgeks2z.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138909792 28017 80.91.229.2 (2 Feb 2006 19:49:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2006 19:49:52 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Chong Yidong , rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Feb 02 20:49:46 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F4kS9-0007u3-Kt for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 02 Feb 2006 20:49:14 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F4kVH-0005Ll-86 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 02 Feb 2006 14:52:27 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1F4i2Y-0001eG-IW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Feb 2006 12:14:38 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1F4fWa-0003YB-FW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Feb 2006 09:33:31 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F4f5s-0004WG-Rt for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Feb 2006 09:05:53 -0500 Original-Received: from [209.226.175.54] (helo=tomts10-srv.bellnexxia.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1F4f4b-0001oO-0i; Thu, 02 Feb 2006 09:04:33 -0500 Original-Received: from alfajor ([67.71.26.32]) by tomts10-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.13 201-253-122-130-113-20050324) with ESMTP id <20060202140230.IZSF14963.tomts10-srv.bellnexxia.net@alfajor>; Thu, 2 Feb 2006 09:02:30 -0500 Original-Received: by alfajor (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 238412FD60; Thu, 2 Feb 2006 09:02:30 -0500 (EST) Original-To: David Kastrup In-Reply-To: <85wtgeks2z.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (David Kastrup's message of "Thu, 02 Feb 2006 10:50:12 +0100") 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:49936 Archived-At: > Not fixing bugs in core functionality is not the way to get release > quality. Insisting on fixing algorithmic performance bugs, even knowing that there are many more of the same kind, will make sure that you don't even get any release at all (if you want, I'll construct a useful piece of code that uses enough overlays to bring the redisplay to its knees, and then I'll let you try and come up with a better implementation of overlays). Stefan