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From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: 15 seconds to fontify index
Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2007 14:33:42 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <86tzvz9crd.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ups6n55il.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Mon\, 02 Apr 2007 15\:23\:46 +0300")

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
>> Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2007 00:30:14 -0400
>> 
>> For post-22, we definitely want to rewrite Info to use font-lock.
>
> IMHO, just waiting for machines to become faster will consume much
> less energy (freeing our scarce resources for more important work),
> with the same net result.

At the same time machines become faster, the documents get larger.
Computers have become obscenely more powerful than 40 years ago, yet
their speed still determines the work one can get done.

> Anyway, if you think it's a worthwhile job, please add it to
> etc/TODO, otherwise it will surely get forgotten.

Agreed.

-- 
David Kastrup

  reply	other threads:[~2007-04-02 12:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-04-01 21:42 15 seconds to fontify index Richard Stallman
2007-04-01 21:57 ` Nick Roberts
2007-04-02  4:30   ` Chong Yidong
2007-04-02 12:23     ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-04-02 12:33       ` David Kastrup [this message]
2007-04-02 13:00         ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-04-03 10:41           ` Yavor Doganov
2007-04-01 22:04 ` Alan Mackenzie
2007-04-01 22:41   ` Andreas Schwab
2007-04-02  0:58   ` Stefan Monnier
2007-04-02 12:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-04-02 18:05   ` Reiner Steib
2007-04-02 23:02     ` Miles Bader
2007-04-03 16:33       ` James Cloos
2007-04-03 23:40         ` Miles Bader
2007-04-04 14:02         ` Richard Stallman
2007-04-03  7:46   ` Richard Stallman
2007-04-03  0:04 ` Kevin Ryde

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