From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: emacs rendering comparisson between emacs23 and emacs26.3 Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2020 22:51:39 -0400 Message-ID: References: <86tv2h2vww.fsf@gmail.com> <20200322123818.GB32470@ACM> <87eetk5swm.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="120447"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Alan Mackenzie Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 23 03:52:11 2020 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 1jGDCE-000VDm-LO for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 23 Mar 2020 03:52:10 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56578 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jGDCD-0001LY-Nx for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 22 Mar 2020 22:52:09 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:49846) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jGDBk-0000vu-Mn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 22 Mar 2020 22:51:41 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:45516) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1jGDBk-0005mD-5m; Sun, 22 Mar 2020 22:51:40 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jGDBj-0000Pi-AM; Sun, 22 Mar 2020 22:51:39 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87eetk5swm.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Amin Bandali on Sun, 22 Mar 2020 11:08:25 -0400) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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:245704 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > > Still, an increase of ~75% in processing time over the best part of a > > decade isn't that bad. Surely? Certainly not when compared with the > > increase in available computing power. There has been no increase in computing power in the Free World. I expect that Amin chooses these older machines > Just as a data point, my main machine is a ThinkPad released in 2008 > with a Core 2 Duo processor, which is not nearly as fast as the newer > Core i5/i7 processors found in more recent machines since. for the same reason I choose them: the FSF recommends them, because newer processors have back doors. Intel processors newer than that contain the "Management Engine" back door and can't start up without it. So please, everyone, take care to maintain good performance on these older machines. Is it possible, to restore most of the lost peformance by deactivating some new features? -- Dr Richard Stallman Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)