From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: master 616da8fa8e: Merge branch 'feature/fix-the-long-lines-display-bug' Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2022 16:38:57 +0300 Message-ID: <83pmhymvpq.fsf@gnu.org> References: <165839997103.16342.15946302166780212268@vcs2.savannah.gnu.org> <20220721103932.9604DC0F20B@vcs2.savannah.gnu.org> <87y1wm7ipn.fsf@yahoo.com> <83v8rqmyeq.fsf@gnu.org> <87lesm7gnd.fsf@yahoo.com> <875yjq7g11.fsf@yahoo.com> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="27915"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: gregory@heytings.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Po Lu Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 21 15:40:42 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1oEWPx-00073w-JS for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 21 Jul 2022 15:40:41 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:32892 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oEWPw-0008By-JR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 21 Jul 2022 09:40:40 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:51066) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oEWOO-0005L0-Lw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Jul 2022 09:39:04 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:52036) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oEWOO-0000wO-Cr; Thu, 21 Jul 2022 09:39:04 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From:Date: mime-version; bh=eW5TsIZCGO2uQXxu8Ij3+xCDfx5nwfmw+/kD2M6XBVM=; b=q3f1j8MWy8UG 7x7JrA8D6RZIAvP87/ATIjQ1R1ZWRXtD5UXkN42EWsRon4nY0J5BV+1rIOV/9rSPeTqINnhWB2N/m GXPmci8eVsUzd+aoEbH6ick5uemgIST/8/VNmcMUZMtQ9k285X4TobN0AbkysZyVeihPNUMIJKpxR xNRkaNsyDK+urHK5tXnAzFpsAt1gDh1entYoopQKGqV8vfY2KDHzMXCPlVVjt6hspCL9uNsGl8lm7 4YHyb902tFb2Zm7bCrj1IlDl/vcCojR+eQIOvgYOLBloEiWybOZKzJYLWVlG4vHTENAPrhoF2a0Fp HyI5+d6TP9CIYxiyQlrW9w==; Original-Received: from [87.69.77.57] (port=3055 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oEWON-0002pH-Sh; Thu, 21 Jul 2022 09:39:04 -0400 In-Reply-To: <875yjq7g11.fsf@yahoo.com> (message from Po Lu on Thu, 21 Jul 2022 21:26:50 +0800) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:292360 Archived-At: > From: Po Lu > Cc: Eli Zaretskii , emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2022 21:26:50 +0800 > > Gregory Heytings writes: > > > One of the design principles of that feature is that it should be as > > transparent as possible, and it is. The point of adding a variable to > > control the feature was to avoid introducing an arbitrary constant at > > the C level, and also to allow users who really enjoy slowdowns to > > turn these optimizations off > > Then why is it a number and not a boolean? A number that I don't know > how to change is as good as a constant. If we decide that there's no reason for users to change the number, we might consider making it a boolean, indeed.