From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Breakpoint ignored. Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 22:03:52 -0400 Message-ID: References: <877hutz9zb.fsf@telefonica.net> <83hbtxgwqz.fsf@gnu.org> <87ljj6vq0z.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <87tyxu96vv.fsf@telefonica.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1256004256 6933 80.91.229.12 (20 Oct 2009 02:04:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2009 02:04:16 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=D3scar?= Fuentes Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 20 04:04:09 2009 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 1N0451-00055N-Ut for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 20 Oct 2009 04:04:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:48824 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1N0451-00057l-Ki for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 19 Oct 2009 22:04:07 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1N044t-00056c-MU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Oct 2009 22:03:59 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1N044p-00053f-AA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Oct 2009 22:03:59 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=55945 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1N044o-00053P-Tt for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Oct 2009 22:03:55 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.183]:39542 helo=ironport2-out.pppoe.ca) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1N044o-0001y3-E8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Oct 2009 22:03:54 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AgcFAPe23EpLd/m0/2dsb2JhbACBUtgChDEEiAU X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.44,588,1249272000"; d="scan'208";a="47846649" Original-Received: from 75-119-249-180.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([75.119.249.180]) by ironport2-out.pppoe.ca with ESMTP; 19 Oct 2009 22:03:53 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id A84BF80E7; Mon, 19 Oct 2009 22:03:52 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <87tyxu96vv.fsf@telefonica.net> (=?iso-8859-1?Q?=22=D3scar?= Fuentes"'s message of "Tue, 20 Oct 2009 03:44:04 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. 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:116264 Archived-At: > 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