From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: rms@gnu.org
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Default of jit-lock-stealth-time
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2007 23:56:02 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvy7mlsens.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1HLWWC-0005Fu-Hq@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard Stallman's message of "Sun\, 25 Feb 2007 22\:27\:16 -0500")
> Regardless of the system load: the load may be low at the moment
> _exactly_ because the user terminated all processes that would disturb
> the interactivity of his current work, and I think it a mistake that
> Emacs considers the CPU fit for grabbing for its own purposes unless
> the user _explicitly_ asked for it.
> Stealth fontification is intended to stop whenever the user types a
> character. So why would it interfere with the "interactivity" of
> Emacs commands? Is there a bug which prevents stealth fontification
> from stopping quickly?
Yes, I know of at least 2 causes:
- it's based on polling and may take a long time before the next poll
- the stealth-fontification causes swapping, and so even if the poll comes
immediately, pages need to be swapped back in before the user's command
can complete.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-02-26 4:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 89+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-02-25 12:13 Default of jit-lock-stealth-time David Kastrup
2007-02-25 13:31 ` martin rudalics
2007-02-25 22:29 ` Kim F. Storm
2007-02-26 3:27 ` Richard Stallman
2007-02-26 4:56 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2007-02-26 19:52 ` Richard Stallman
2007-02-26 20:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-02-27 7:39 ` Richard Stallman
2007-02-27 20:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-02-28 7:27 ` Richard Stallman
2007-02-28 20:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-03-01 8:14 ` Richard Stallman
2007-03-01 15:18 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-03-01 15:56 ` David Kastrup
2007-03-01 16:00 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-03-01 16:54 ` Stuart D. Herring
2007-03-01 16:57 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-03-01 17:00 ` Stuart D. Herring
2007-03-01 17:13 ` David Kastrup
2007-03-02 1:59 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-03-03 13:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-03-03 13:36 ` David Kastrup
2007-03-03 15:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-03-03 15:24 ` Daniel Brockman
2007-03-03 15:43 ` David Kastrup
2007-03-04 2:00 ` Richard Stallman
2007-03-03 15:37 ` David Kastrup
2007-03-03 23:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-03-04 8:16 ` David Kastrup
2007-03-04 13:29 ` David Kastrup
2007-03-04 20:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-03-04 21:13 ` David Kastrup
2007-03-07 1:05 ` Miles Bader
2007-03-07 4:50 ` David Kastrup
2007-03-07 5:01 ` Miles Bader
2007-03-07 21:44 ` David Kastrup
2007-03-05 2:55 ` Richard Stallman
2007-03-05 7:18 ` David Kastrup
2007-03-04 2:00 ` Richard Stallman
2007-03-04 8:42 ` David Kastrup
2007-03-05 2:55 ` Richard Stallman
2007-02-26 21:33 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-02-27 8:17 ` David Kastrup
2007-02-27 20:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-02-28 2:37 ` Richard Stallman
2007-02-28 2:37 ` Richard Stallman
2007-02-26 7:16 ` David Kastrup
2007-02-26 19:53 ` Richard Stallman
2007-02-27 8:19 ` David Kastrup
2007-02-26 4:39 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-02-26 7:11 ` Romain Francoise
2007-02-26 7:35 ` David Kastrup
2007-02-26 10:20 ` Andreas Schwab
2007-02-26 10:43 ` David Kastrup
2007-02-26 10:56 ` Andreas Schwab
2007-02-27 7:38 ` Richard Stallman
2007-02-27 8:31 ` David Kastrup
2007-02-27 11:00 ` David Kastrup
2007-02-28 2:37 ` Richard Stallman
2007-02-26 11:26 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-02-26 11:28 ` David Kastrup
2007-02-26 14:56 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-02-26 12:13 ` Jan Djärv
2007-02-26 10:24 ` Kim F. Storm
2007-02-26 13:42 ` martin rudalics
2007-02-26 14:26 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-02-26 16:32 ` martin rudalics
2007-02-26 15:10 ` David Kastrup
2007-02-26 15:22 ` Kim F. Storm
2007-02-26 16:44 ` martin rudalics
2007-02-26 22:55 ` Kim F. Storm
2007-02-26 19:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-02-26 21:34 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-02-26 23:19 ` Miles Bader
2007-02-27 0:43 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-02-27 2:10 ` Miles Bader
2007-02-27 4:57 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-02-27 8:23 ` David Kastrup
2007-02-27 20:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-02-27 20:59 ` David Kastrup
2007-02-27 21:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-02-27 22:02 ` David Kastrup
2007-02-28 4:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-02-28 6:35 ` David Kastrup
2007-02-28 20:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-02-28 7:27 ` Richard Stallman
2007-02-28 20:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-02-27 23:21 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-02-27 4:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
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