From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Xue Fuqiao <xfq.free@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, thierry.volpiatto@gmail.com
Subject: Re: sleep-for documentation and how to pause reliably
Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2013 18:26:14 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83d2vyrjo9.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130217195813.634c3e504b81e6220258f785@gmail.com>
> Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2013 19:58:13 +0800
> From: Xue Fuqiao <xfq.free@gmail.com>
> Cc: Thierry Volpiatto <thierry.volpiatto@gmail.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
>
> > I never see anything close to 20 sec, neither on Windows nor on
> > GNU/Linux. The first evaluation takes a little longer (perhaps a
> > second or two) until I see "hi", but I think this is due to a cold
> > cache that makes start-process-shell-command slower.
>
> Just a question: what does "cold cache" mean?
I meant the disk cache. A cold cache (as opposed to a warm cache)
means that the files your program reads are not in the cache, and need
to be physically read from the disk.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-02-17 16:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-02-15 9:22 sleep-for documentation and how to pause reliably Eli Zaretskii
2013-02-15 10:19 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2013-02-15 13:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-02-15 20:36 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2013-02-16 8:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-02-17 11:58 ` Xue Fuqiao
2013-02-17 16:26 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2013-02-17 23:41 ` Xue Fuqiao
2013-02-15 16:11 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-02-15 18:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-02-15 20:36 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-03-02 20:48 ` Johan Bockgård
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