From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Default of jit-lock-stealth-time Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 16:33:07 -0500 Message-ID: References: <85tzxazb8r.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1172525621 13598 80.91.229.12 (26 Feb 2007 21:33:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 21:33:41 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Feb 26 22:33:34 2007 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 1HLnTL-0002wO-Ge for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 26 Feb 2007 22:33:27 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HLnTL-0002iF-4i for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 26 Feb 2007 16:33:27 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HLnTA-0002hx-1k for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Feb 2007 16:33:16 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HLnT8-0002hl-Se for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Feb 2007 16:33:15 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HLnT8-0002hi-K6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Feb 2007 16:33:14 -0500 Original-Received: from mercure.iro.umontreal.ca ([132.204.24.67]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1HLnT5-00069T-N8; Mon, 26 Feb 2007 16:33:11 -0500 Original-Received: from hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca (hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.50]) by mercure.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 638782CF2E4; Mon, 26 Feb 2007 16:33:11 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from faina.iro.umontreal.ca (faina.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.26.177]) by hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA9D63FE1; Mon, 26 Feb 2007 16:33:07 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: by faina.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix, from userid 20848) id C49BB6C1AD; Mon, 26 Feb 2007 16:33:07 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Mon\, 26 Feb 2007 14\:52\:52 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.92 (gnu/linux) X-DIRO-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-DIRO-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-DIRO-MailScanner-SpamCheck: n'est pas un polluriel, SpamAssassin (score=-2.82, requis 5, autolearn=not spam, ALL_TRUSTED -2.82) X-DIRO-MailScanner-From: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:66880 Archived-At: > Yes, I know of at least 2 causes: > - it's based on polling and may take a long time before the next poll > - the stealth-fontification causes swapping, and so even if the poll comes > immediately, pages need to be swapped back in before the user's command > can complete. > I see. > The motive for stealth fontification was to avoid delays when moving to > another part of the file. Is fontification now sufficiently fast > that such delays are not much of an annoyance any more? In my opinion, we're definitely there. I'd even say we've always been there. After all, the delay is often present even with stealth fontification (in those cases where stealth fontification hasn't had a chance to get here yet), so we always have to make sure that this delay is acceptable anyway. Stefan