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: Suggestion: default value of `font-lock-verbose' should be nil Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2011 00:35:31 -0500 Message-ID: References: <81ei8knjr2.fsf@gmail.com> <4D2BE5AF.3040803@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1294724145 15322 80.91.229.12 (11 Jan 2011 05:35:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2011 05:35:45 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Jambunathan K , Dan Davison , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Daniel Colascione Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 11 06:35:41 2011 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PcWtP-0005Xh-OB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 11 Jan 2011 06:35:39 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:48149 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PcWtP-0007B7-1z for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 11 Jan 2011 00:35:39 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=56103 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PcWtJ-00078K-Ab for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Jan 2011 00:35:34 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PcWtI-00081S-Cu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Jan 2011 00:35:33 -0500 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.181]:7259 helo=ironport2-out.pppoe.ca) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PcWtI-00081O-9R for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Jan 2011 00:35:32 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AvsEAA57K01FxIbi/2dsb2JhbACkN3S7N4VMBIRnjiQ X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.60,305,1291611600"; d="scan'208";a="87591203" Original-Received: from 69-196-134-226.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO ceviche.home) ([69.196.134.226]) by ironport2-out.pppoe.ca with ESMTP/TLS/ADH-AES256-SHA; 11 Jan 2011 00:35:31 -0500 Original-Received: by ceviche.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 6C92C660DC; Tue, 11 Jan 2011 00:35:31 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <4D2BE5AF.3040803@gmail.com> (Daniel Colascione's message of "Mon, 10 Jan 2011 21:07:59 -0800") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.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:134432 Archived-At: >>>> 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