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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: miles@gnu.org, jan.h.d@swipnet.se, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Blink cursor changes, possible W32 breakage.
Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2013 03:45:50 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwva9lg5pg9.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83k3kky6l3.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sun, 21 Jul 2013 05:44:56 +0300")

>> No, indeed, but they're not activated unless the user asks for
>> it explicitly.
> I don't see how this is relevant.

It's relevant because most optional features are turned off.

> Are we going to tell users not to enable features if they want Emacs
> to be friendly to the batteries?  That's not going to happen.

jit-lock-stealth is pretty clearly battery unfriendly.  It's in its nature.

>> Also jit-lock-stealth used to be enabled by default but was disabled
>> because too many people found it problematic, so only those people
>> who don't care about high/excessive background CPU usage will have
>> it enabled.
> JIT Stealth has a variable to limit the system load it imposes; mine
> is set to 20%.

Yes, we did try to make jit-lock-stealth work acceptably, but after many
attempts, we chose to turn it off instead because there's always some
situation where it consumes a lot more CPU than what you'd want.


        Stefan



  reply	other threads:[~2013-07-21  7:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 56+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-07-16 11:48 Blink cursor changes, possible W32 breakage Jan Djärv
2013-07-16 15:55 ` Glenn Morris
2013-07-16 16:15   ` Jan Djärv
2013-07-16 18:29   ` covici
2013-07-16 18:49     ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-07-16 20:19       ` covici
2013-07-16 17:00 ` Juanma Barranquero
2013-07-16 17:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-07-16 18:02   ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2013-07-16 18:30     ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-07-16 22:05       ` Stefan Monnier
2013-07-16 21:12   ` Jan Djärv
2013-07-16 21:23     ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2013-07-16 22:04       ` Óscar Fuentes
2013-07-17  1:58       ` Miles Bader
2013-07-17  7:42       ` Jan Djärv
2013-07-17 14:58         ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-07-17 15:02         ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2013-07-17  8:38       ` Stefan Monnier
2013-07-17  4:04     ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-07-17  4:56       ` Miles Bader
2013-07-17  7:38         ` Jan Djärv
2013-07-17 14:56           ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-07-17 16:29             ` Jan Djärv
2013-07-17 17:05               ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-07-17 18:53                 ` Jan Djärv
2013-07-17 19:23                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-07-17 19:38                     ` Jan Djärv
2013-07-19  2:12                     ` Miles Bader
2013-07-19  6:39                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-07-19  9:33                         ` Stefan Monnier
2013-07-19 10:07                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-07-19 10:50                             ` Óscar Fuentes
2013-07-19 11:13                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-07-19 12:02                                 ` Óscar Fuentes
2013-07-19 13:43                                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-07-19 17:52                                     ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2013-07-20  8:18                                     ` Stefan Monnier
2013-07-20  9:25                                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-07-20 22:42                                         ` Stefan Monnier
2013-07-21  2:45                                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-07-21  7:46                                             ` Stefan Monnier
2013-07-21 15:43                                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-07-22  2:47                                                 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-07-19 10:54                             ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2013-07-19  9:32                       ` Stefan Monnier
2013-07-19 10:08                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-07-20  8:16                           ` Stefan Monnier
2013-07-20  9:26                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-07-20 22:40                               ` Stefan Monnier
2013-07-21  2:44                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-07-21  7:45                                   ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2013-07-21 15:42                                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-07-22  2:46                                       ` Stefan Monnier
2013-07-21  9:20                                 ` martin rudalics
2013-07-22  2:55                                   ` Stefan Monnier

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