From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Richard M. Stallman" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Display slowness that is painful Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2006 23:15:03 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87slr5c78p.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <877j8fx43q.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87acdblr9b.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> <87mzhbd6kv.fsf@stupidchicken.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138853933 3074 80.91.229.2 (2 Feb 2006 04:18:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2006 04:18:53 +0000 (UTC) Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Feb 02 05:18:51 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F4Vvm-0007t0-9v for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 02 Feb 2006 05:18:50 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F4Vys-0006lp-0k for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 01 Feb 2006 23:22:02 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1F4VwE-0005qs-IV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Feb 2006 23:19:18 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1F4VwD-0005qY-VH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Feb 2006 23:19:18 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F4VwD-0005qT-Pt for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Feb 2006 23:19:17 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1F4Vuz-0003Fg-J3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Feb 2006 23:18:01 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1F4Vs7-0005Jr-Kw; Wed, 01 Feb 2006 23:15:03 -0500 Original-To: Chong Yidong In-reply-to: <87mzhbd6kv.fsf@stupidchicken.com> (message from Chong Yidong on Tue, 31 Jan 2006 23:52:00 -0500) 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:49902 Archived-At: I'm confused. How does it make sense to display characters in \XXX format instead? Both methods produce gibberish (as one would expect of a binary file). So we might as well choose the gibberish that redisplays faster. Making it 4 times as fast is not enough. It will still be intolerable. This ought to be hundreds of times as fast, and I am sure it can be, with a fairly small change--once someone sees what is taking the time. This is a bug. Please help fix it.