From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Stealth fontification GCs a lot
Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2005 23:40:14 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m1hdief0gh.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1DKoAe-0000rs-5j@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard Stallman's message of "Sun, 10 Apr 2005 21:57:00 -0400")
> I have been trying Font Lock mode, which I never used to use before.
> I notice that when stealth fontification is occurring, Emacs spends
> about 1/3 of its time GCing. The frequent GCs make for annoying
> latency when I type another command.
I haven't looked at the consing behavior, but I'll just mention that I find
stealth fontification annoying and have turned it off a while ago.
Many people have reported problems with it (typically they complain that
Emacs uses a lot of resources even when it's not used, which sucks when
you're running on batteries).
I haven't heard of any good reason why it should be enabled by default
(the argument that it forces us to fix it doesn't hold water since it
still hasn't been fixed after all these years).
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-04-11 3:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-04-11 1:57 Stealth fontification GCs a lot Richard Stallman
2005-04-11 3:40 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2005-04-11 22:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-04-12 17:25 ` Richard Stallman
2005-04-12 18:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-04-12 19:52 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-04-13 17:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-04-13 17:56 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-04-13 23:41 ` Miles Bader
2005-04-14 16:21 ` Richard Stallman
2005-04-13 18:30 ` Richard Stallman
2005-04-13 21:24 ` Aidan Kehoe
2005-04-13 22:25 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-04-14 3:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-04-14 19:03 ` Richard Stallman
2005-04-15 8:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-04-13 18:31 ` Richard Stallman
2005-04-14 3:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-04-14 19:03 ` Richard Stallman
2005-04-23 12:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-04-12 2:59 ` Richard Stallman
2005-04-12 8:29 ` Ralf Angeli
2005-04-13 5:02 ` Richard Stallman
2005-04-13 11:37 ` Ralf Angeli
2005-04-14 16:20 ` Richard Stallman
2005-04-14 16:53 ` Ralf Angeli
[not found] <E1DLrVe-00055D-2l@monty-python.gnu.org>
2005-04-14 4:17 ` Jonathan Yavner
2005-04-14 6:20 ` Miles Bader
2005-04-14 9:39 ` David Kastrup
2005-04-14 11:25 ` Ralf Angeli
2005-04-15 2:44 ` Richard Stallman
2005-04-15 6:47 ` Ralf Angeli
2005-04-16 2:57 ` Richard Stallman
2005-04-15 8:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-04-15 9:12 ` Ralf Angeli
2005-04-14 19:04 ` Richard Stallman
2005-04-15 8:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
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