From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.pretest.bugs,gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Mysterious fontification/C++ context issue Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 18:36:11 -0500 Message-ID: References: <45742464.1090504@gmx.at> <20061204203024.D17603@colin2.muc.de> <45768797.5010106@gmx.at> <87odqhj89q.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <20061210014526.GB3738@muc.de> <877ix0lfm8.fsf@furball.mit.edu> <20061210102249.GA1235@muc.de> <20061214085349.GB1333@muc.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: dough.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1166225789 22413 80.91.229.10 (15 Dec 2006 23:36:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 23:36:29 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-pretest-bug-bounces+gebp-emacs-pretest-bug=gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Dec 16 00:36:27 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gebp-emacs-pretest-bug@gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by dough.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1GvMbI-0002MU-9m for gebp-emacs-pretest-bug@gmane.org; Sat, 16 Dec 2006 00:36:24 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GvMbH-00036J-Ne for gebp-emacs-pretest-bug@gmane.org; Fri, 15 Dec 2006 18:36:23 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GvMbA-000361-Az for emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org; Fri, 15 Dec 2006 18:36:16 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GvMbA-00035k-0t for emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org; Fri, 15 Dec 2006 18:36:16 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GvMb8-00035K-Hd; Fri, 15 Dec 2006 18:36:14 -0500 Original-Received: from [83.228.211.39] (helo=alfajor.home) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1GvMb8-0001Rr-Bk; Fri, 15 Dec 2006 18:36:14 -0500 Original-Received: by alfajor.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id D11DE1C1BA; Fri, 15 Dec 2006 18:36:11 -0500 (EST) Original-To: Alan Mackenzie In-Reply-To: <20061214085349.GB1333@muc.de> (Alan Mackenzie's message of "14 Dec 2006 08\:43\:15 +0100\, Thu\, 14 Dec 2006 08\:53\:49 +0000") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.91 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for CVS Emacs." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-pretest-bug-bounces+gebp-emacs-pretest-bug=gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-pretest-bug-bounces+gebp-emacs-pretest-bug=gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.pretest.bugs:15804 gmane.emacs.devel:63808 Archived-At: >> > In the time Emacs 22 is the current release, a typical new PC will come to >> > be around 20 GHz, and this slowness will not matter. >> Actually, "recent" trends indicate that this is not true. We'll probably >> see typical new PCs with 4-16 CPUs, each one running at 4-5GHz, but that >> won't help Emacs much. > Hmmm. One processor for foreground editing, another for doing garbage > collection, yet another four or five for background font-locking and > syntactic cacheing, and so on. > That could be quite a fast system. I'm anxiously awaiting your patch to Emacs's C code base to make such concurrency possible. Stefan