From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: dim1212k@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Garbage collector: is 800kb a good default?
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2020 09:03:05 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvv9m7xzpt.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83y2r3n9q6.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Fri, 10 Apr 2020 09:19:45 +0300")
>> No, that's not what I was saying. What I was saying is that in the"idle
>> GC case" the events are as follows:
>>
>> 1- 100%-N% of the GC runs while idle.
>> 2- the user hits a key
>> 3- the remaining N% of the GC runs.
>> 4- the command runs
>>
>> whereas in the non-idle GC what happens is:
>>
>> 1- the user hits a key
>> 2- the command starts
>> 3- the GC gets run
>> 4- the command continues and finiches
>>
>> To the user, the result is pretty much the same: in both cases Emacs
>> took "time to run the command + time to GC" before responding.
>
> We are miscommunicating. My complaint was about the _response_ time,
> which is the time that passes between me pressing a key and Emacs
> reacting to that. In your description above it is the time between
> "the user hits a key" and "the command starts".
The user can't know when Emacs reacts to the key: in both cases there's
no sign of life until point 4 finishes (that's assuming the command is
something like self-insert-command where there's no user interaction
*during* the command).
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-04-10 13:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-04-09 11:59 Garbage collector: is 800kb a good default? Dmitrii Korobeinikov
2020-04-09 12:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-09 13:44 ` Dmitrii Korobeinikov
2020-04-09 14:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-09 14:46 ` Dmitrii Korobeinikov
2020-04-09 16:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-10 16:40 ` Dmitrii Korobeinikov
2020-04-09 19:05 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-04-10 16:26 ` Dmitrii Korobeinikov
2020-04-09 18:48 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-04-10 14:26 ` Bruno Félix Rezende Ribeiro
2020-04-10 16:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-10 18:26 ` Bruno Félix Rezende Ribeiro
2020-04-10 18:53 ` Paul Eggert
2020-04-09 13:47 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-04-09 14:20 ` Dmitrii Korobeinikov
2020-04-09 14:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-09 18:42 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-04-09 19:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-09 19:31 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-04-10 6:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-10 13:03 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2020-04-10 13:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-10 14:34 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-04-10 14:38 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-04-10 15:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-10 15:52 ` Andrea Corallo
2020-04-10 16:45 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-04-10 17:18 ` Andrea Corallo
2020-04-09 14:48 ` Andrea Corallo
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