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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: HOWTO: lightning fast Emacs on Linux multicore
Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2014 22:25:13 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83k32udhau.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20141116123211220580626@bob.proulx.com>

> Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2014 12:49:52 -0700
> From: Bob Proulx <bob@proulx.com>
> 
> > Now, Emacs has a core to itself and should run much
> > faster, at least for normal usage.
> 
> I am happy if you are happy with the above.  However I recommend not
> doing this.

Seconded.

> I think it is better to allow the kernel to optimize process
> scheduling itself.  As I said, if you are happy then I am happy for
> you.  But I wouldn't recommend this to others since it will generally
> slow down the system.

In general, one should keep out of the scheduler's way, unless they
have a VERY good reason.  Such reasons can only pop up when you need
to run some software with hard real-time deadlines (and even then
there are better ways).  Any other reason is by definition to good
enough.



  reply	other threads:[~2014-11-16 20:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-11-08 23:07 HOWTO: lightning fast Emacs on Linux multicore Emanuel Berg
2014-11-10  2:05 ` Marcin Borkowski
     [not found] ` <mailman.13356.1415585130.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-11-15 19:26   ` Emanuel Berg
2014-11-16  1:13     ` York Zhao
     [not found]     ` <mailman.13774.1416100398.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-11-16  7:46       ` Emanuel Berg
2014-11-16  7:57         ` Jean-Jacques Rétorré
2014-11-16  8:07           ` Emanuel Berg
2014-11-16  8:43             ` Jean-Jacques Rétorré
2014-11-16 20:34               ` Emanuel Berg
2014-11-16  2:55 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2014-11-16  7:41   ` Emanuel Berg
2014-11-16 19:49 ` Bob Proulx
2014-11-16 20:25   ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
     [not found] ` <mailman.13827.1416167406.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-11-16 21:04   ` Emanuel Berg
2014-11-16 21:39     ` Bob Proulx
2014-11-17  3:42       ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]     ` <mailman.13834.1416173992.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-11-16 21:58       ` Emanuel Berg

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