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: PURESIZE increased (again) Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2006 20:35:05 +0900 Message-ID: References: <87lku5u6tx.fsf@pacem.orebokech.com> <200604212310.k3LNA3Jp018780@jane.dms.auburn.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1145705727 5476 80.91.229.2 (22 Apr 2006 11:35:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2006 11:35:27 +0000 (UTC) Cc: romain@orebokech.com, Luc Teirlinck , Reiner.Steib@gmx.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Apr 22 13:35:25 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FXGOZ-0004Gy-EC for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 22 Apr 2006 13:35:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FXGOY-00079H-RC for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 22 Apr 2006 07:35:22 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FXGOM-00077n-Hp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 22 Apr 2006 07:35:10 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FXGOI-00073x-Uh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 22 Apr 2006 07:35:10 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FXGOI-00073s-Qv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 22 Apr 2006 07:35:06 -0400 Original-Received: from [64.233.162.200] (helo=nz-out-0102.google.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FXGQ4-0005TZ-Iv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 22 Apr 2006 07:36:56 -0400 Original-Received: by nz-out-0102.google.com with SMTP id q3so702042nzb for ; Sat, 22 Apr 2006 04:35:05 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=I94a4hggTF71KNC6t5ffN/cwZJ44hdWYdsT3a3PoltHe4bflgO71lsNsvO14V80908N8zQJkOAltuQTQ+VjfPhL1N1b8XNvlYmX0W2wWT0yfMEks2NgKEIUx62gm914j35beS8t7fWkB5SLW7zkMaMl5sN2dRAFow2KCl7QfF7o= Original-Received: by 10.37.15.25 with SMTP id s25mr1400804nzi; Sat, 22 Apr 2006 04:35:05 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.36.220.10 with HTTP; Sat, 22 Apr 2006 04:35:05 -0700 (PDT) Original-To: "Eli Zaretskii" In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline 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:53226 Archived-At: On 4/22/06, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > I think we simply > _must_ understand why on similar systems the numbers are so different Why? What's the _downside_ of adding a fudge factor to puresize? Is it worth the time to debug? [On a modern system.] It's nice to understand every detail, but sometimes it's not worth the effo= rt. -Miles -- Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball.