From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: A question regarding sit-for (and while-no-input) Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2018 08:36:59 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87k1nyzwx5.fsf@gmail.com> <87ftymzvjv.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1538743323 1413 195.159.176.226 (5 Oct 2018 12:42:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2018 12:42:03 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 05 14:41:58 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1g8PQc-0000Ew-Jn for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 05 Oct 2018 14:41:58 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34988 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g8PSj-0002sa-1E for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 05 Oct 2018 08:44:09 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34178) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g8PLy-0006hb-SC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Oct 2018 08:37:11 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g8PLv-00058s-He for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Oct 2018 08:37:10 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=55340 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g8PLv-00056X-7l for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Oct 2018 08:37:07 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1g8PJm-0000wv-Lh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Oct 2018 14:34:54 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 16 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:sHG9KDywTgFAhR1U4hPp5OQZlWw= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:230235 Archived-At: > These are the results of pressing C-u C-x C-e SPC in quick succession > after each expression. > > (joaot/time > (while-no-input > (while t (accept-process-output nil 0.1)))) ; Took 00.201 seconds and returned t > > (joaot/time > (while-no-input > (while t (accept-process-output nil 30)))) ; Took 03.822 seconds and returned t I don't know why this happens to you, but FWIW, I can't reproduce it here (using Debian). Stefan