From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: RMAIL slows Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 21:54:17 +0200 Message-ID: <85ll7m8nbq.fsf@gnu.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1113422532 14571 80.91.229.2 (13 Apr 2005 20:02:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 20:02:12 +0000 (UTC) Cc: bob@rattlesnake.com, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Apr 13 22:02:09 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DLo1H-0003WL-35 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 13 Apr 2005 21:59:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DLnbq-0004Kk-GL for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 13 Apr 2005 15:33:10 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DLnZE-0001uz-Ra for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Apr 2005 15:30:29 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DLnZA-0001rx-46 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Apr 2005 15:30:25 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DLnZ7-0001m5-VT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Apr 2005 15:30:22 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DLnx4-00062K-9s for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Apr 2005 15:55:06 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=localhost.localdomain) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DLnwG-0005MA-7O; Wed, 13 Apr 2005 15:54:26 -0400 Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Wed, 13 Apr 2005 14:31:21 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:35953 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:35953 Richard Stallman writes: > I wonder if the slowness is due to an increasing number of markers > or overlays in the buffer. Maybe goto-address is making them and > never getting rid of them. If that were the case, then one symptom might be that performance improves when setting gc-cons-threshold to a _smaller_ value, such as 1000. Then Emacs would collect garbage (and consequently unused markers slowing down the operation) quite more often. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum