From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Input method or help feature needed Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2011 19:30:00 -0500 Message-ID: References: <8339nmwjf2.fsf@gnu.org> <87aahu30d5.fsf@escher.home> <8362sgv4zv.fsf@gnu.org> <87lj1c78rg.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1298161819 22809 80.91.229.12 (20 Feb 2011 00:30:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2011 00:30:19 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: David Kastrup Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Feb 20 01:30:14 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PqxBk-0005mO-JW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 20 Feb 2011 01:30:12 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:53752 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PqxBj-0007La-UX for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 19 Feb 2011 19:30:12 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=58711 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PqxBa-0007I9-79 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Feb 2011 19:30:03 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PqxBY-0007Xd-W6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Feb 2011 19:30:01 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:49486) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PqxBY-0007XY-Ui for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Feb 2011 19:30:00 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PqxBY-0004ww-MP; Sat, 19 Feb 2011 19:30:00 -0500 In-reply-to: <87lj1c78rg.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (message from David Kastrup on Sat, 19 Feb 2011 09:01:39 +0100) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.10 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:136251 Archived-At: If this is a general problem of completion, tackling it will speed up a lot of user interaction. If it is a problem of getting the data (rather than turning it into a form fit for completion), it still might be possible to better batch that process. I suspect that generating the data in a buffer without sorting it could be done much faster than what the completion code does. For instance, it spends a lot of time in GC, but this task should not require any consing. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org, www.gnu.org