From: Alan Mackenzie<none@example.invalid>
Subject: Re: What is the _essential_ difference between lazy-lock and jit-lock?
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 19:03:12 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <g9o3vb.26.ln@acm.acm> (raw)
In-Reply-To: jwvbrouy73a.fsf-monnier+gnu.emacs.help@asado.iro.umontreal.ca
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote on Fri, 23 Jan 2004
16:29:57 GMT:
>> Surely not - Emacs _HUNG_ with stealth fontification, accepting no
>> keypresses (apart from a double C-g), and remained in this state
>> overnight (> 8 hours). As I said, I reported this [to bug-gnu-emacs,
>> 24 Oct 2002, "jit-lock hangs emacs in certain circumstances"], but I
>> failed to follow-up RMS's request for a more precise test-case.
>> Perhaps I should look into this again. Looking at this bug report
>> again, I also said that lazy-lock sometimes hung this way, too. I'm
>> sure you're right that it's the tuning of the stealth fontification
>> that's pertinent here, not the difference between lazy- and jit-.
> I'm pretty sure I've seen this report (although I can't remember it),
> but it sounds like a different problem than just tuning, more like a
> real bug, probably a bad-regexp in the font-lock settings of a
> major-mode (the potentially exponential behavior of the current
> regexp-engine is a common problem). This was probably compounded by
> the fact that inhibit-quit is set during stealth fontification (input
> is polled instead).
More info: When Emacs hangs in this manner, a double C-g followed by
`fg' often (but not always) brings forth this:
: Garbage collection in progress; cannot auto-save now
: but will instead do a real quit after garbage collection ends
: Abort (and dump core)? (y or n)
On replying `n', Emacs frees up again. Left undisturbed it frequently
goes back into the hung state.
I conjecture that complicated regexps in font-lock settings are somehow
creating garbage at a fabulous rate, and jit-lock and the GC are somehow
thrashing. Just as soon as jit-lock can be halted and the GC left in
peace, things return to OK.
I've just noticed something: jit-lock-stealth-load seems to be set by
default to 200%. This seems strange. Should this perhaps be 20%. ;-)
> This inhibit-quit issue is probably the one we should fix, although
> it's a bit tricky to do right (after all, you don't want to leave wrong
> highlighting just because the user happened to hit C-g for some
> unrelated reason). I think we need a "sledge-hammer" variant of C-g.
[ .... ]
>> OK. Perhaps for me, simply disabling stealth fontification is the
>> right thing.
> If you're trying to save power, yes. If not (i.e. if it's to yield the
> CPU to other tasks) then you shouldn't need to tune anything (i.e. the
> defaults should be improved).
OK.
> Stefan
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-01-26 19:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-01-22 18:06 What is the _essential_ difference between lazy-lock and jit-lock? Alan Mackenzie
2004-01-22 18:57 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-01-22 23:07 ` Alan Mackenzie
2004-01-22 23:37 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-01-23 10:36 ` Alan Mackenzie
2004-01-23 11:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-01-23 16:29 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-01-23 19:28 ` Kevin Rodgers
2004-01-26 19:03 ` Alan Mackenzie [this message]
2004-01-26 21:46 ` Stefan Monnier
[not found] ` <mailman.1214.1074858619.928.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2004-01-23 22:34 ` Alan Mackenzie
2004-01-24 10:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.1266.1074941164.928.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2004-01-26 17:53 ` Alan Mackenzie
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