From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Herbert Euler" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Accelerating Emacs? Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 19:38:26 +0800 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1130500800 20431 80.91.229.2 (28 Oct 2005 12:00:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 12:00:00 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 28 13:59:58 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EVStP-0004NY-65 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 28 Oct 2005 13:59:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EVStO-0002Z4-3Y for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 28 Oct 2005 07:59:30 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EVSZ6-0007W2-IL for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Oct 2005 07:38:32 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EVSZ2-0007Uz-Eu for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Oct 2005 07:38:29 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EVSZ2-0007Uu-A3 for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Oct 2005 07:38:28 -0400 Original-Received: from [64.4.26.42] (helo=hotmail.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1EVSZ2-00065L-Eq for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Oct 2005 07:38:28 -0400 Original-Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Fri, 28 Oct 2005 04:38:27 -0700 Original-Received: from 64.4.26.200 by by112fd.bay112.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Fri, 28 Oct 2005 11:38:26 GMT X-Originating-IP: [202.43.217.195] X-Originating-Email: [herberteuler@hotmail.com] X-Sender: herberteuler@hotmail.com In-Reply-To: Original-To: Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-OriginalArrivalTime: 28 Oct 2005 11:38:27.0103 (UTC) FILETIME=[1CA3F2F0:01C5DBB4] X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:30651 Archived-At: >From: Eli Zaretskii >To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org >Subject: Re: Accelerating Emacs? >Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 10:25:47 +0200 > >Primitive operations that are used a lot and need to be fast are >written in C, not in Lisp. But at least the searching, syntax highlighting, tags processing, and some other modules are written in Lisp, although it might be byte-compiled. >FWIW, on a reasonably fast machine, I find Emacs reasonably fast for >day-to-day operation. I believe this is true. But hey, lots of algorithms that are very effective in general cases have to face some really bad situation, just like I mentioned here. Is it possible to improve the behaviour of Emacs in such situations? Regards, Guanpeng Xu _________________________________________________________________ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today it's FREE! http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/