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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs Slowdown
Date: Mon, 09 Mar 2015 17:50:34 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvioe9c08g.fsf-monnier+gmane.emacs.help@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 83pp8i5ep9.fsf@gnu.org

> Forget the memory-usage profile, it doesn't measure what you think it
> does, and is mostly useless, except in very specialized situations,
> and then for people who really understand what this means (I don't).

Agreed (except maybe for the "I don't" part ;-), we should at least
"hide" it.  It was mostly a hack to work around the lack of timer-based
sampling in some platform in the early versions of the profiler code.


        Stefan




  reply	other threads:[~2015-03-09 21:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-03-09 11:48 Emacs Slowdown Phillip Lord
2015-03-09 16:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-03-09 21:50   ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2015-03-10 12:37   ` Phillip Lord
2015-03-10 19:00     ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-03-09 21:59 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-03-10 12:39   ` Phillip Lord
2015-03-10 13:22     ` Stefan Monnier
2015-03-12 11:36 ` Phillip Lord
2015-03-16 11:41   ` Phillip Lord
2015-03-16 12:36     ` Stefan Monnier
2015-03-16 16:51       ` Phillip Lord
2015-03-18 12:23         ` Phillip Lord
2015-03-18 12:44           ` Stefan Monnier
2015-03-18 14:13             ` Phillip Lord
2015-03-18 14:53               ` Stefan Monnier
2015-03-18 16:34                 ` Phillip Lord
2015-03-18 16:32             ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-03-18 17:04               ` Phillip Lord

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