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From: Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Windows port: using Windows' default printer
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 12:15:21 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3F9666C9.7040004@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3F965D61.4020509@runestig.com>

Peter 'Luna' Runestig wrote:
> Hi all! Is there anything more I should do to get this patch accepted?
> When it comes to the issue about calling default-printer-name each time
> we print something, I can see several options:
> 
> o Leave as is (my favorite).
> o Only call default-printer-name on start-up.
> o Make the use of the above two ways run-time configurable.
> o Add some caching functionality to default-printer-name, and trigger
>   the "cache update" on WM_SETTINGCHANGE.

I favour the first option too. Worrying about a few milliseconds 
overhead for a system call on an operation like printing, that takes 
orders of magnitude longer, is not worth it IMHO. Caching would make the 
code overly complicated and difficult to maintain.

  reply	other threads:[~2003-10-22 11:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-02-20 13:18 Windows port: using Windows' default printer Peter 'Luna' Runestig
2003-02-20 23:05 ` Jason Rumney
2003-02-21  6:52   ` Peter 'Luna' Runestig
2003-02-21  8:20     ` Jason Rumney
2003-09-12 19:34       ` Peter 'Luna' Runestig
2003-09-13 10:04         ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-09-13 10:35           ` Jason Rumney
2003-09-13 14:39             ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-09-13 19:44               ` Peter 'Luna' Runestig
2003-09-13 20:32                 ` Kai Grossjohann
2003-09-13 22:13                   ` Jason Rumney
2003-09-13 23:44                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-09-14  9:40                   ` Peter 'Luna' Runestig
2003-09-15 14:52         ` Stefan Monnier
2003-09-21 13:19           ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-09-21 19:51             ` Stefan Monnier
2003-09-22  6:07               ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-09-23 16:28               ` Peter 'Luna' Runestig
2003-09-24 18:25                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-09-24 19:22                   ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-09-25 13:26                   ` Peter 'Luna' Runestig
2003-10-22 10:35                     ` Peter 'Luna' Runestig
2003-10-22 11:15                       ` Jason Rumney [this message]
2003-10-22 15:58                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-11-26 11:55                         ` Peter 'Luna' Runestig

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