From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: "Óscar Fuentes" <ofv@wanadoo.es>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Breakpoint ignored.
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 22:03:52 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv1vkyrfes.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87tyxu96vv.fsf@telefonica.net> ("Óscar Fuentes"'s message of "Tue, 20 Oct 2009 03:44:04 +0200")
> I think it is not related to the specific case being discused, but your
> scenario looks quite extreme to me. Such abuse does not warrant
> increasing complexity with optimizations or safeguards for
> them. Guaranteeing that emacs (or firefox) behaves snappy after pressing
> a key for half an hour (why not a month?) enters the paranoid field of
> life-critical applications.
Agreed. This said I think Emacs deals fairly poorly with such
situations and it is a problem in some real cases where people have to
handle files with really long lines.
We have an open bug-report about it.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-10-20 2:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-10-18 2:55 Breakpoint ignored Óscar Fuentes
2009-10-18 4:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-10-18 14:39 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-10-18 18:46 ` Óscar Fuentes
2009-10-19 2:39 ` Richard Stallman
2009-10-19 3:18 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-10-19 6:22 ` Miles Bader
2009-10-19 13:19 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-10-19 22:53 ` Richard Stallman
2009-10-20 0:59 ` David Kastrup
2009-10-20 1:44 ` Óscar Fuentes
2009-10-20 2:03 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2009-10-21 4:58 ` Richard Stallman
2009-10-19 3:35 ` Daniel Colascione
2009-10-19 9:20 ` Andreas Schwab
2009-10-19 13:21 ` Stefan Monnier
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