From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Bob Proulx Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: info-find-source Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2018 14:08:19 -0700 Message-ID: <20180112140127680267463@bob.proulx.com> References: <86tvvufeh0.fsf@zoho.com> <86a7xlezm7.fsf@zoho.com> <86shbcdpr5.fsf@zoho.com> <86po6eke67.fsf@zoho.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1515791460 12011 195.159.176.226 (12 Jan 2018 21:11:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2018 21:11:00 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mutt/1.9.2 (2017-12-15) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 12 22:10:56 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1ea6bD-0002Vd-Ae for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 12 Jan 2018 22:10:51 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39177 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ea6dD-0004TL-43 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 12 Jan 2018 16:12:55 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:33731) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ea6Yt-0001hG-Cy for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Jan 2018 16:08:28 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ea6Yn-0004PR-5S for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Jan 2018 16:08:26 -0500 Original-Received: from havoc.proulx.com ([96.88.95.61]:51682) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ea6Ym-0004Oq-Uw for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Jan 2018 16:08:21 -0500 Original-Received: from joseki.proulx.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by havoc.proulx.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B2B515CB for ; Fri, 12 Jan 2018 14:08:19 -0700 (MST) Original-Received: from hysteria.proulx.com (hysteria.proulx.com [192.168.230.119]) by joseki.proulx.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38B7721241 for ; Fri, 12 Jan 2018 14:08:19 -0700 (MST) Original-Received: by hysteria.proulx.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 2F57B2DC6B; Fri, 12 Jan 2018 14:08:19 -0700 (MST) Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <86po6eke67.fsf@zoho.com> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 96.88.95.61 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:115670 Archived-At: Emanuel Berg wrote: > Marcin Borkowski wrote: > >> Info, with all those tiny nodes hanging > >> everywhere like ornaments from > >> a paleo-Christmas tree on Terra Prima, can > >> be painfully slow to navigate. > > > > On the contrary, I find Info extremely fast. > > Not so fast. Because searching a plain text > file is faster still. > > Perhaps your perception of info as fast is > a function of your own velocity? I also find info to be very fast. I am not using fast computers. Mostly I use older Thinkpads that most people think ancient. I am typing this message on a laptop built in 2008 and it is my newest. Unfortunately info searching being interactive I don't know of a way to benchmark it. I can only say that the time between invoking a search and the display of the match is so fast that I find it imperceptible. It "feels" like 0.05 seconds or faster. (I played with "time sleep 0.05" and numbers in that range felt about the same as searching for random things in the emacs info manual.) At that speed even if search in a raw text file was faster in absolute time I just wouldn't care because it is well below my interactive threshold of noticing any delay at all. Bob