From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Minibuffer tray to display current time and date Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2015 03:16:46 +0200 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <87bnidroqp.fsf@debian.uxu> References: <87h9s7hd7a.fsf@debian.uxu> <87383qvoi4.fsf@debian.uxu> <874mo6bgzx.fsf@debian.uxu> <20150424141319.GA19093@tuxteam.de> <831tj9zizy.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1429924532 1919 80.91.229.3 (25 Apr 2015 01:15:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2015 01:15:32 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Apr 25 03:15:23 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ylogj-0002H2-Jx for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 25 Apr 2015 03:15:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47027 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ylogi-0001hZ-RA for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 24 Apr 2015 21:15:20 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!goblin2!goblin.stu.neva.ru!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 26 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: feB02bRejf23rfBm51Mt7Q.user.speranza.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:PDCOEVcMGEV7i6GYq/19/uDimwE= Mail-Copies-To: never Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:211705 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:103987 Archived-At: jorge.alfaro-murillo@yale.edu (Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo) writes: > Running every 22 seconds is very inefficient, two > out three calls will not change anything. It is like the highway system. Let's say there is a road that is 1 km, i.e. 1000 meter. A traditional pickup truck is about 17 feet, i.e. ~5 meters. So the most efficient way to use that road is - let's see - to drive there simultaneously with 1000/5 = 200 trucks! Right? No - redundancy of resources is your friend - even more so in computing, where it can be automatized. But I'm just saying as a matter of principle and my gut feeling. I didn't study this problem in detail and it is your code. So keep it up. -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573