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: emacs takes exhorbitantly long to read long, one-line files. Date: Tue, 21 May 2013 05:47:33 +0300 Message-ID: <83obc5ujzu.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87ppwn62yr.fsf@digitalsignallabs.com> <5199E19A.3020503@yandex.ru> <877git6hhv.fsf@digitalsignallabs.com> <519A08B2.7010106@yandex.ru> <87r4h1lo20.fsf@kwarm.red-bean.com> <838v39wsjz.fsf@gnu.org> <87d2sltjhh.fsf@digitalsignallabs.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1369104477 24305 80.91.229.3 (21 May 2013 02:47:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 21 May 2013 02:47:57 +0000 (UTC) Cc: kfogel@red-bean.com, dmantipov@yandex.ru, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Randy Yates Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue May 21 04:47:56 2013 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 1UeccF-0002Ub-UW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 21 May 2013 04:47:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41217 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UeccF-00057x-HU for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 20 May 2013 22:47:55 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:42060) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Uecc7-00057o-U8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 20 May 2013 22:47:53 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Uecc2-0004Ab-W5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 20 May 2013 22:47:47 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout23.012.net.il ([80.179.55.175]:32939) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Uecc2-0004AV-ON for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 20 May 2013 22:47:42 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout23.012.net.il by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0MN400100NKBTV00@a-mtaout23.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 21 May 2013 05:47:41 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0MN4001SYNRHN780@a-mtaout23.012.net.il>; Tue, 21 May 2013 05:47:41 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <87d2sltjhh.fsf@digitalsignallabs.com> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.175 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:159698 Archived-At: > From: Randy Yates > Cc: Karl Fogel , dmantipov@yandex.ru, emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Mon, 20 May 2013 17:43:54 -0400 > > I've noticed that xemacs does not have this problem. Would it be > fruitful to look at xemacs' display algorithm? It depends on what level the differences are. We need changes on a very specific level, because rewriting the entire display engine, while a welcome project, is unlikely to happen. Since Stephen says the differences are on a much higher level, I agree with him that this is not likely to help.