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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>,
	 alan@idiocy.org, aaronjensen@gmail.com,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: macOS metal rendering engine in mac port
Date: Sat, 29 May 2021 15:06:43 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv1r9p2wod.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <835yz15rv2.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sat, 29 May 2021 21:15:13 +0300")

> bidirectional display and compared it with my subjective notion of
> "delay": anything below 100ms was barely tangible, anything below 50ms
> was perceived as "instantaneous".

The "rule of thumb" that I internalized over the years in my model of
the world is that a "key press to display" of ~100ms is perceived by
most people as "almost but not quite instantaneous" and only once you
get below 50ms is it really perceived as instantaneous by most people.

Take it with a large grain of salt, tho because I don't know where I got
this from, really, and I'm not particularly interested in this subject
(my "Emacs built with -Og and all debugging assertions, plus extra ones
I added over the years" running on my rather old machines often has
delays significantly higher than that; I have a fairly high tolerance
for those things ;-)


        Stefan




  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-05-29 19:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 155+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-05-21  1:17 macOS metal rendering engine in mac port Aaron Jensen
2021-05-21  6:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-21  6:13   ` Aaron Jensen
2021-05-21  7:35 ` Alan Third
2021-05-21 15:27   ` Aaron Jensen
2021-05-21 17:39     ` Alan Third
     [not found]       ` <CAHyO48ys2sYxbZuho1NutqNAM-z0tTaKwuR1TxUuhMZG5XJ0aA@mail.gmail.com>
2021-05-22 16:01         ` Aaron Jensen
2021-05-22 16:30           ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-22 16:46             ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-22 17:00               ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-22 18:44         ` Alan Third
2021-05-22 18:59           ` Aaron Jensen
2021-05-22 19:57             ` Alan Third
2021-05-22 21:20               ` Aaron Jensen
2021-05-23 11:47                 ` Alan Third
2021-05-23 16:09                   ` Stefan Monnier
2021-05-23 16:13                   ` Aaron Jensen
2021-05-23 17:06                     ` Aaron Jensen
2021-05-23 17:21                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-23 18:38                         ` Aaron Jensen
2021-05-23 18:48                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-23 19:49                             ` Aaron Jensen
2021-05-24  0:00                           ` Aaron Jensen
2021-05-24  0:04                             ` Aaron Jensen
     [not found]                               ` <CAHyO48z1m5aeqwqmZds3yuYiJ=rdHZ79JPVyuh1kHVU0Rw47EA@mail.gmail.com>
2021-05-24  6:51                                 ` Aaron Jensen
2021-05-24  7:37                                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-24  8:07                                     ` Aaron Jensen
2021-05-24  8:48                                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-24 15:32                                         ` Aaron Jensen
2021-05-24 16:28                                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-24 16:31                                             ` Aaron Jensen
2021-05-24 16:43                                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-24 17:58                                                 ` Aaron Jensen
2021-05-24 18:03                                                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-24 18:16                                                     ` Alan Third
2021-05-24 18:18                                                     ` Aaron Jensen
2021-05-24 18:54                                                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-24 19:07                                                         ` Aaron Jensen
2021-05-24 19:21                                                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-24 19:27                                                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-24 20:21                                                               ` Aaron Jensen
2021-05-25  2:31                                                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]                                                                   ` <CAHyO48yxxdURvZSzrWn-F+6wKwHgpwcoXD7_w0NmWLcfBKkUkw@mail.gmail.com>
2021-05-25  5:41                                                                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-25  6:26                                                                       ` Aaron Jensen
2021-05-25 12:16                                                                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-25 12:23                                                                           ` Alan Third
2021-05-25 12:56                                                                           ` Alan Third
2021-05-25 13:00                                                                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-25 13:07                                                                               ` Alan Third
2021-05-25 13:18                                                                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-25 13:34                                                                                   ` Alan Third
2021-05-25 13:47                                                                                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-25 13:50                                                                                       ` Alan Third
2021-05-27 16:55                                                                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-27 17:40                                                                               ` Alan Third
2021-05-27 17:47                                                                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-27 17:51                                                                                   ` Alan Third
2021-05-27 17:53                                                                                     ` Aaron Jensen
2021-05-27 18:59                                                                                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-27 19:02                                                                                         ` Aaron Jensen
2021-05-27 19:22                                                                                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-27 19:37                                                                                             ` Aaron Jensen
2021-05-28 17:58                                                                                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-28 18:21                                                                                                 ` Aaron Jensen
2021-05-28 19:00                                                                                                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-25 15:35                                                                           ` Aaron Jensen
2021-05-25 17:34                                                                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-25 17:48                                                                               ` Aaron Jensen
2021-05-25  9:01                                                                     ` Alan Third
2021-05-24 12:47                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-24 16:10                                   ` Aaron Jensen
2021-05-23 21:20                       ` Alan Third
2021-05-23 22:04                         ` Alan Third
2021-05-23 22:12                           ` Alan Third
2021-05-23 21:08                     ` Alan Third
2021-05-23 22:37                       ` Aaron Jensen
2021-05-24  9:01                         ` Alan Third
2021-05-25 16:31                           ` Aaron Jensen
2021-05-26  0:32                             ` Aaron Jensen
2021-05-26  6:23                               ` Alan Third
2021-05-26  6:26                                 ` Aaron Jensen
2021-05-26  7:35                                   ` Aaron Jensen
2021-05-28 17:39                                 ` Aaron Jensen
2021-05-28 18:32                                   ` Alan Third
2021-05-28 19:00                                     ` Aaron Jensen
2021-05-28 19:29                                       ` Alan Third
2021-05-28 22:07                                         ` Aaron Jensen
2021-05-29  6:07                                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-29  7:01                                             ` Aaron Jensen
2021-05-29  7:05                                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-29  8:52                                                 ` Aaron Jensen
2021-05-29  9:06                                                   ` Aaron Jensen
2021-05-29  9:21                                                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-29  9:35                                                       ` Alan Third
2021-05-29  9:41                                                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-29 16:18                                                         ` Aaron Jensen
2021-05-29 16:49                                                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-29 17:05                                                             ` Aaron Jensen
2021-05-29 17:20                                                               ` Aaron Jensen
2021-05-29 17:43                                                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-29 18:00                                                                   ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-05-29 18:15                                                                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-29 18:52                                                                       ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-05-29 19:06                                                                       ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2021-05-29 19:10                                                                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-29 17:34                                                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-29 18:22                                                                 ` Aaron Jensen
2021-05-29 18:27                                                                   ` Aaron Jensen
2021-05-29 18:40                                                                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-29 19:30                                                                     ` Aaron Jensen
2021-05-29 20:03                                                                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-29 21:03                                                                         ` Aaron Jensen
2021-05-29 21:05                                                                           ` Aaron Jensen
2021-05-29 21:40                                                                             ` Aaron Jensen
2021-05-30  4:44                                                                               ` Aaron Jensen
2021-05-30  7:01                                                                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-30  6:27                                                                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-30  7:04                                                                                 ` Aaron Jensen
2021-05-30  9:36                                                                                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-30 15:46                                                                                     ` Aaron Jensen
2021-05-30 16:03                                                                                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-30 16:16                                                                                         ` Aaron Jensen
2021-05-30 16:35                                                                                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-30 17:00                                                                                             ` Aaron Jensen
2021-05-30 17:18                                                                                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-30 23:59                                                                                                 ` Aaron Jensen
2021-05-31  2:28                                                                                                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-31  2:30                                                                                                     ` Aaron Jensen
2021-06-03 21:42                                                                                                       ` Alan Third
2021-06-03 21:43                                                                                                         ` Aaron Jensen
2021-09-15 13:16                                                                                                         ` Aaron Jensen
2021-09-15 19:30                                                                                                           ` Illia Ostapyshyn
2021-09-15 19:54                                                                                                             ` Alan Third
2021-09-16 15:59                                                                                                               ` Y. E. via Emacs development discussions.
2021-09-17 17:31                                                                                                                 ` Alan Third
2021-09-17 17:43                                                                                                                   ` Aaron Jensen
2021-09-18  5:42                                                                                                                   ` Y. E. via Emacs development discussions.
2021-09-20 21:22                                                                                                                   ` Illia Ostapyshyn
2021-09-21  7:22                                                                                                                     ` Y. E. via Emacs development discussions.
2021-09-21 18:48                                                                                                                       ` Alan Third
2021-09-27 10:07                                                                                                                         ` Alan Third
2021-10-04 14:58                                                                                                                           ` Aaron Jensen
2021-10-25 19:39                                                                                                                           ` Illia Ostapyshyn
2021-10-26 12:16                                                                                                                             ` Alan Third
2021-10-26 13:26                                                                                                                               ` Aaron Jensen
2021-09-16 10:01                                                                                                           ` Rudolf Adamkovič
2021-05-30  6:22                                                                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-29  9:12                                                   ` Alan Third
2021-05-29  9:26                                                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-29  9:32                                                       ` Alan Third
2021-05-29  9:37                                                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-29  9:39                                                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-29  9:44                                                             ` Alan Third
2021-05-29 14:12                                                             ` Alan Third
2021-05-23 23:32                       ` Tim Cross

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