From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: emacs rendering comparisson between emacs23 and emacs26.3 Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2020 22:28:10 -0400 Message-ID: References: <86tv2h2vww.fsf@gmail.com> <20200322123818.GB32470@ACM> <87eetk5swm.fsf@gnu.org> <20200326193128.GC14092@ACM> <86d08y4zsx.fsf@gmail.com> <83sghs7qdz.fsf@gnu.org> <83h7y63sjj.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="81605"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: acm@muc.de, rrandresf@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 31 04:28:49 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1jJ6e1-000L8U-Co for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 31 Mar 2020 04:28:49 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59396 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jJ6e0-0007Pt-DH for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 30 Mar 2020 22:28:48 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:53690) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jJ6dS-0006s8-0q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Mar 2020 22:28:15 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:58072) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1jJ6dR-0007g3-NA; Mon, 30 Mar 2020 22:28:13 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jJ6dO-0002BR-D1; Mon, 30 Mar 2020 22:28:10 -0400 In-Reply-To: <83h7y63sjj.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Mon, 30 Mar 2020 16:01:52 +0300) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:246073 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > > Would you please strive to keep Emacs from slowing down > > for users who don't use, or who disable, the new functionality? > For new features that can be disabled, that is mostly the case > anyway. But most new features we add don't have such knobs, usually > because we don't envision anyone to want them. My point is, if a feature causes significant slowdown, in general usage, that in itself is a reason to give it a knob. -- Dr Richard Stallman Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)