From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs costs 100M memory on Windows XP Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2008 13:23:04 +0900 Message-ID: References: <47A46CA9.40703@gnu.org> <47A4DAED.4000801@gnu.org> <47A70A2D.6010209@gnu.org> Reply-To: Miles Bader NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1202185425 30606 80.91.229.12 (5 Feb 2008 04:23:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2008 04:23:45 +0000 (UTC) Cc: mindcooler@gmail.com, eliz@gnu.org, Kenichi Handa , emacs-devel@gnu.org, Jason Rumney To: "Juanma Barranquero" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Feb 05 05:24:06 2008 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 4.50) id 1JMFLp-0006RZ-UE for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 05 Feb 2008 05:24:06 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JMFLN-0004tP-P5 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 04 Feb 2008 23:23:37 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JMFLJ-0004sn-BP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Feb 2008 23:23:33 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JMFLH-0004rD-TP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Feb 2008 23:23:33 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JMFLH-0004qv-LJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Feb 2008 23:23:31 -0500 Original-Received: from tyo202.gate.nec.co.jp ([202.32.8.206]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JMFL7-00008g-W7; Mon, 04 Feb 2008 23:23:22 -0500 Original-Received: from relay21.aps.necel.com ([10.29.19.50]) by tyo202.gate.nec.co.jp (8.13.8/8.13.4) with ESMTP id m154N5W2012542; Tue, 5 Feb 2008 13:23:05 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: from relay11.aps.necel.com ([10.29.19.24] [10.29.19.24]) by relay21.aps.necel.com with ESMTP; Tue, 5 Feb 2008 13:23:05 +0900 Original-Received: from dhapc248.dev.necel.com ([10.114.112.215] [10.114.112.215]) by relay11.aps.necel.com with ESMTP; Tue, 5 Feb 2008 13:23:05 +0900 Original-Received: by dhapc248.dev.necel.com (Postfix, from userid 31295) id 0F40A594; Tue, 5 Feb 2008 13:23:04 +0900 (JST) System-Type: i686-pc-linux-gnu Blat: Foop In-Reply-To: (Juanma Barranquero's message of "Mon, 4 Feb 2008 13:59:13 +0100") Original-Lines: 16 X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 8 (1) 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:88229 Archived-At: "Juanma Barranquero" writes: >> The problems on Windows have been fixed, so there is no urgency now. > > And the new font backend seems significantly slower. In what case? I didn't notice any obviousy slowdown when switching to the new font backend, even on my home machine, which is fairly slow (450 MHz P3). -Miles -- People who are more than casually interested in computers should have at least some idea of what the underlying hardware is like. Otherwise the programs they write will be pretty weird. -- Donald Knuth