From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Elisp native profiler Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2012 15:19:49 +0200 Message-ID: <837grghqfe.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83zk4egs0w.fsf@gnu.org> <83y5jygrni.fsf@gnu.org> <83haqlgrit.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1348665637 2638 80.91.229.3 (26 Sep 2012 13:20:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2012 13:20:37 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 26 15:20:42 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1TGrXc-0003Wt-EN for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 26 Sep 2012 15:20:40 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52587 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TGrXX-0001TS-CW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 26 Sep 2012 09:20:35 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:36192) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TGrXL-0001Rt-SH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Sep 2012 09:20:33 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TGrXK-0003LE-AY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Sep 2012 09:20:23 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il ([80.179.55.166]:33663) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TGrXK-0003Ih-2V for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Sep 2012 09:20:22 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0MAY00700KWPSC00@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Sep 2012 15:19:50 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0MAY007JLL12J4B0@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Wed, 26 Sep 2012 15:19:50 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-Received-From: 80.179.55.166 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:153579 Archived-At: > From: Stefan Monnier > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2012 08:55:48 -0400 > > > If not, the adaptation of itimers to MS-Windows can wait. Otherwise, > > it doesn't make sense to me to have an interim release with an > > important new feature that is not supported on MS-Windows. > > It's mostly useful for Elisp package authors. Most of those packages > are platform agnostic, so it's not that serious if you need to find > a GNU/Linux system in order to do the profiling. > You can even ask some other GNU/Linux user to do the profiling for you > and send you the result. > So, I don't see any reason why we should prevent GNU/Linux users from > enjoying this feature in 24.3. I didn't say we should prevent users of other platforms from enjoying this feature. But if this will be in 24.3, someone, probably myself, will need to add the missing pieces to get it working on Windows. IOW, I was asking for information necessary to plan my time.