From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: visual-line-mode Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 16:43:48 +0900 Message-ID: References: <87zlp4raab.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <3CF14102-968E-4B46-898D-4ACF3B7DD380@gmail.com> Reply-To: Miles Bader NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1214811861 20237 80.91.229.12 (30 Jun 2008 07:44:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 07:44:21 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Chong Yidong , "Lennart Borgman \(gmail\)" , Emacs-Devel devel To: David Reitter Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jun 30 09:45:01 2008 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 4.50) id 1KDE4J-0001lV-I6 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 30 Jun 2008 09:44:59 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50368 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KDE3T-00011s-EY for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 30 Jun 2008 03:44:07 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KDE3O-000103-Lr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Jun 2008 03:44:02 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KDE3M-0000xa-DH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Jun 2008 03:44:01 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=60295 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KDE3M-0000xP-7p for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Jun 2008 03:44:00 -0400 Original-Received: from mx20.gnu.org ([199.232.41.8]:44325) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KDE3G-00016w-Tp; Mon, 30 Jun 2008 03:43:55 -0400 Original-Received: from tyo201.gate.nec.co.jp ([202.32.8.193]) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KDE3F-0004e1-3d; Mon, 30 Jun 2008 03:43:53 -0400 Original-Received: from relay11.aps.necel.com ([10.29.19.46]) by tyo201.gate.nec.co.jp (8.13.8/8.13.4) with ESMTP id m5U7heTb028658; Mon, 30 Jun 2008 16:43:48 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: from relay11.aps.necel.com ([10.29.19.24] [10.29.19.24]) by relay11.aps.necel.com with ESMTP; Mon, 30 Jun 2008 16:43:48 +0900 Original-Received: from dhapc248.dev.necel.com ([10.114.112.215] [10.114.112.215]) by relay11.aps.necel.com with ESMTP; Mon, 30 Jun 2008 16:43:48 +0900 Original-Received: by dhapc248.dev.necel.com (Postfix, from userid 31295) id 21EA03E4; Mon, 30 Jun 2008 16:43:48 +0900 (JST) System-Type: i686-pc-linux-gnu Blat: Foop In-Reply-To: <3CF14102-968E-4B46-898D-4ACF3B7DD380@gmail.com> (David Reitter's message of "Mon, 30 Jun 2008 09:32:16 +0200") Original-Lines: 25 X-detected-kernel: by mx20.gnu.org: Solaris 8 (1) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:100196 Archived-At: David Reitter writes: >> (1) It seems extremely slow -- moving from line to line is noticeably >> laggy, and sometimes will just ... hang for a while, even if >> there's no wrapped lines at all. >> >> (2) It seems to cons a lot; even just a bit of movement results in >> frequent pauses to garbage collect (again, this happens even >> without any wrapped lines). > > It's an iterative approach, primarily because we don't have the right > Emacs primitives. That said, it's been nice and fast and we've used > for standard movement commands for a while now. So I'm not sure what > the problem is. Perhaps you're using a powerful system so that slowdowns aren't very noticeable. I presume you'd see the "gcing..." msgs though ... oh wait, aren't those turned of by default now? -Miles -- (\(\ (^.^) (")") *This is the cute bunny virus, please copy this into your sig so it can spread.