From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Daniel Colascione <dan.colascione@gmail.com>
Cc: Jambunathan K <kjambunathan@gmail.com>,
Dan Davison <dandavison7@gmail.com>,
emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Suggestion: default value of `font-lock-verbose' should be nil
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2011 00:35:31 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvtyhggg0f.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D2BE5AF.3040803@gmail.com> (Daniel Colascione's message of "Mon, 10 Jan 2011 21:07:59 -0800")
>>>> The fontification messages cause noticeable slowdowns on OS X[1] in
>>>> certain situations (e.g. viewing src code blocks in org-mode with
>>>> `org-src-fontify-natively' turned on).
>> FWIW, I use Emacs on Windows. Having zero verbosity does improve the
>> user experience tremedously.
> ISTR a "huge performance increase" in garbage collection that came about
> solely as a result of making garbage-collection-messages default to nil.
I don't remember such a huge increase, but I do remember an immediate
stop to the recurring lament that "Emacs is slow, because of GC".
> Perception is important.
Amen,
Stefan
prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-01-11 5:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-01-10 18:30 Suggestion: default value of `font-lock-verbose' should be nil Dan Davison
2011-01-10 19:06 ` Drew Adams
2011-01-10 20:02 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-01-11 4:32 ` Jambunathan K
2011-01-11 5:07 ` Daniel Colascione
2011-01-11 5:35 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
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