From: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: "Óscar Fuentes" <ofv@wanadoo.es>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs and Gnome Canvas
Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2010 15:33:13 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <buofwzkey1i.fsf@dhlpc061.dev.necel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83vd8gg4kj.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Thu, 15 Jul 2010 18:14:36 +0300")
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> . Jan says we need to maintain a GtkTextBuffer object for every
> buffer we have in Emacs. Does that mean buffer text will be held
> twice in memory, once as it is today, the other as GtkTextBuffer?
> What will that do to Emacs's ability to visit very large files?
> Even today there's demand to be able to visit files that are 1GB
> or 2GB in size. Doubling that would be a serious impediment.
... and it's not just memory -- a serious problem with many
"pre-rendered" text display implementations (e.g., most web-browsers) is
that there's a _massive_ delay/slowdown when displaying a huge
documents.
[Most people don't display huge documents (especially in web-browsers
etc), of course, so these implementations work OK for "typical" use.
But AFAICT, it's definitely an important goal of Emacs to handle more
extreme cases too.]
> Or maybe you are thinking about _replacing_ buffer text with
> GtkTextBuffer? That would mean you'd need to redesign buffer
> management code.
and pretty much rewrite or toss out a lot of lisp code that uses any but
the most basic features.
I think code re-use and sharing commonly used libraries is a very good
thing, and should be done as often as practical -- but I just don't
think it's practical in the case of Emacs buffers/high-level-redisplay.
Emacs is simply too different.
[If someone wanted to _rewrite_ emacs from scratch, not maintaining
compatibility with the vast majority of legacy code, this would likely
be a good route to follow of course (though even in that case, there's
always the possibility that implementations like GtkTextBuffer are
simply not good enough to handle more hardcore use).]
Of course, using a lower-level interface, e.g., GTK/cairo/whatever as a
drawing library (which Emacs redisplay would call to display), instead
of e.g. X, would probably be practical though, and might even be fairly
easy to do given that the drawing layer already has an abstract
interface because of the various backends already supported.
-Miles
--
Once, adj. Enough.
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Thread overview: 118+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-07-13 19:02 Emacs, QT and Cairo Was: Re: Efforts to attract more users? Stephen Eilert
2010-07-13 19:29 ` Chong Yidong
2010-07-13 19:51 ` Chad Brown
2010-07-13 20:48 ` Jan Djärv
2010-07-13 22:30 ` Emacs, QT and Cairo Chad Brown
2010-07-14 1:39 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-07-14 2:32 ` Óscar Fuentes
2010-07-14 7:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-07-14 18:37 ` Chad Brown
2010-07-14 20:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-07-14 21:24 ` Óscar Fuentes
2010-07-15 6:55 ` Emacs and Gnome Canvas (was: Emacs, QT and Cairo) Eli Zaretskii
2010-07-15 7:46 ` Emacs and Gnome Canvas Jan Djärv
2010-07-15 7:53 ` Jan Djärv
2010-07-15 8:36 ` joakim
2010-07-15 8:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-07-15 8:50 ` Jan Djärv
2010-07-15 8:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-07-15 8:48 ` Jan Djärv
2010-07-15 8:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-07-15 9:29 ` Jan Djärv
2010-07-15 10:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-07-15 10:54 ` Jan Djärv
2010-07-15 12:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-07-15 14:18 ` Óscar Fuentes
2010-07-15 15:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-07-16 6:33 ` Miles Bader [this message]
2010-07-15 16:00 ` Chong Yidong
2010-07-15 16:27 ` Óscar Fuentes
2010-07-15 17:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-07-15 17:48 ` Óscar Fuentes
2010-07-15 18:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-07-15 21:27 ` Óscar Fuentes
2010-07-16 8:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-07-16 14:24 ` Óscar Fuentes
2010-07-16 15:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-07-16 16:07 ` Óscar Fuentes
2010-07-16 18:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-07-16 21:21 ` Óscar Fuentes
2010-07-16 23:44 ` Chad Brown
2010-07-17 0:08 ` Óscar Fuentes
2010-07-17 7:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-07-17 8:34 ` Andreas Schwab
2010-07-17 9:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-07-17 9:40 ` Andreas Schwab
2010-07-17 10:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-07-17 13:49 ` Óscar Fuentes
2010-07-17 7:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-07-17 13:42 ` Óscar Fuentes
2010-07-17 15:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-07-17 21:53 ` Óscar Fuentes
2010-07-18 1:42 ` Miles Bader
2010-07-18 2:45 ` Óscar Fuentes
2010-07-18 8:06 ` Chad Brown
2010-07-18 14:43 ` Óscar Fuentes
2010-07-21 8:34 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-07-22 14:26 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-07-15 17:22 ` Chong Yidong
2010-07-15 18:02 ` Óscar Fuentes
2010-07-15 22:10 ` Stephen Eilert
2010-07-16 7:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-07-16 2:14 ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2010-07-16 7:33 ` Jan Djärv
2010-07-16 9:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-07-16 10:15 ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2010-07-16 10:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-07-16 12:42 ` Jan Djärv
2010-07-17 3:50 ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2010-07-17 8:33 ` Jan Djärv
2010-07-17 8:38 ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2010-07-17 9:18 ` Jan Djärv
2010-07-17 9:25 ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2010-07-17 10:26 ` Jan Djärv
2010-07-18 3:51 ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2010-07-18 7:10 ` Jan Djärv
2010-07-18 7:45 ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2010-07-18 9:06 ` Jan Djärv
2010-07-19 0:50 ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2010-07-17 1:00 ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2010-07-17 1:40 ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2010-07-17 8:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-07-17 8:25 ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2010-07-16 12:21 ` Jan Djärv
2010-07-16 10:01 ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2010-07-16 12:26 ` Jan Djärv
2010-07-16 14:05 ` Davis Herring
2010-07-16 17:38 ` Jan Djärv
2010-07-17 1:12 ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2010-07-17 7:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-07-17 7:31 ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2010-07-17 8:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-07-17 8:32 ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2010-07-15 14:24 ` Jan Djärv
2010-07-15 14:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-07-15 15:16 ` Jan Djärv
2010-07-15 15:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-07-15 17:14 ` Jan Djärv
2010-07-15 9:20 ` Andy Wingo
2010-07-15 18:41 ` Emacs and Gnome Canvas (was: Emacs, QT and Cairo) Dirk-Jan C. Binnema
2010-07-15 21:51 ` Emacs and Gnome Canvas Óscar Fuentes
2010-07-15 22:21 ` Bruce Stephens
2010-07-27 21:24 ` Emacs, QT and Cairo Stefan Monnier
2010-07-27 21:36 ` Chad Brown
2010-07-28 3:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-07-14 8:59 ` Emacs, QT and Cairo Was: Re: Efforts to attract more users? YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2010-07-14 9:41 ` Emacs, QT and Cairo David Engster
2010-07-14 9:56 ` Jan Djärv
2010-07-14 13:50 ` Drew Adams
2010-07-14 14:14 ` David Engster
2010-07-14 14:28 ` joakim
2010-07-14 15:41 ` Emacs, QT and Cairo Was: Re: Efforts to attract more users? Chong Yidong
2010-07-14 16:17 ` joakim
2010-07-14 18:04 ` Jan Djärv
2010-07-15 23:15 ` Andrew W. Nosenko
2010-07-16 7:41 ` Jan Djärv
2010-07-16 10:24 ` Andrew W. Nosenko
2010-07-16 12:36 ` Jan Djärv
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2010-07-17 19:02 Emacs and Gnome Canvas grischka
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