Re: desktop.el: autosave?

[Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org>]

On Fri, 7 Dec 2007, Juri Linkov wrote:

> Saving a buffer's file is fast operation comparing to saving the desktop
> that takes more time because it is a cpu-intensive task that collects
> information from all buffers and some possibly long lists and writes
> to the usually large desktop file.  The default timeout for auto-save
> is 30 sec which is ok for auto-saving normal files, but I don't see a
> need to waste resources to save the desktop so often.

It's easy to argue about this, but numbers are more convincing. I don't know 
anything about instrumenting functions in Emacs; how can I find out how long 
Emacs spends running desktop-save over a particular time period?

> But the main problem with idle timers is that with long intervals they may 
> never run.

So don't use long intervals: if the computer is idle anyway, why does it 
matter if Emacs does some work? Or does "idle" only apply to Emacs?

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