From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: save-buffer in tar-mode Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2004 07:15:29 -0500 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <20040204.135033.207583862.Takaaki.Ota@am.sony.com> <200402121304.WAA11159@etlken.m17n.org> <200403021222.VAA17913@etlken.m17n.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1078817722 32112 80.91.224.253 (9 Mar 2004 07:35:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2004 07:35:22 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, Takaaki.Ota@am.sony.com, handa@m17n.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 09 08:35:17 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1B0bll-0003aJ-00 for ; Tue, 09 Mar 2004 08:35:17 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1B0blk-0004p7-00 for ; Tue, 09 Mar 2004 08:35:17 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1B0bVS-0000Xq-NC for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Tue, 09 Mar 2004 02:18:26 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1AzEO5-0001G5-9R for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Mar 2004 07:25:09 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1AzEL1-0000ub-Ja for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Mar 2004 07:22:31 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1AzEGq-0008OF-O0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Mar 2004 07:17:40 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.24) id 1AzEEj-0003S3-Me; Fri, 05 Mar 2004 07:15:29 -0500 Original-To: Stefan Monnier In-reply-to: (message from Stefan Monnier on 03 Mar 2004 17:32:55 -0500) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:20275 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:20275 But in any case, maybe this is just very silly and a plain copy of 25MB would work just as well. After all when we have to move the gap to update this tar buffer, we also have to move a significant fraction of those 25MB, so it won't make things much worse than they already are. I would guess that it is quite rare to have to move the gap in the tar buffer. Most uses of tar mode are read-only, I would guess. So that argument isn't really valid. However, it may nonetheless be true that copying 25 MB is fast enough nowadays.