From: storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm)
Cc: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: simple patch for `etags.el'
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 10:08:50 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3wtymlo8d.fsf@kfs-l.imdomain.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200409212200.22757.pogonyshev@gmx.net> (Paul Pogonyshev's message of "Tue, 21 Sep 2004 22:04:06 -0200")
Paul Pogonyshev <pogonyshev@gmx.net> writes:
> Richard Stallman wrote:
>
>> Even better, how about not updating the percentage more than once
>> per second?
>
> This turned out not to be better. Overhead caused by time
> fetching and comparisons is not worth the gain. When
> percentage is printed whenever it changes, `message' is
> called at most 101 times and that is cheap. Note that 101
> is a constant, while the number of constraint evaluations
> is practically not limited.
You could do the time check only when you are about to call message,
ie. a max of 101 times.
>
> So I suggest not bothering with time. It is faster, gives
> much simpler code and, finally, once per second is still to
> rarely, at least to my tastes.
Probably -- but a default period of 0.2 seconds would be ok.
--
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk> http://www.cua.dk
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-09-22 8:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-09-20 18:50 simple patch for `etags.el' Paul Pogonyshev
2004-09-21 1:25 ` Paul Pogonyshev
[not found] ` <200409210006.24183.pogonyshev@gmx.net>
2004-09-21 2:08 ` Paul Pogonyshev
2004-09-22 7:11 ` Richard Stallman
2004-09-23 0:30 ` Paul Pogonyshev
2004-09-23 16:45 ` Richard Stallman
2004-09-24 3:21 ` Paul Pogonyshev
2004-09-21 18:31 ` Richard Stallman
2004-09-22 0:04 ` Paul Pogonyshev
2004-09-22 8:08 ` Kim F. Storm [this message]
2004-09-22 14:04 ` Paul Pogonyshev
2004-09-22 11:47 ` Kim F. Storm
2004-09-22 12:09 ` David Kastrup
2004-09-22 20:22 ` Paul Pogonyshev
2004-09-23 9:30 ` Richard Stallman
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