From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel,gmane.emacs.pretest.bugs Subject: Re: Mysterious fontification/C++ context issue Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2006 00:14:50 +0100 Message-ID: References: <87y7po2e9b.fsf@leeloo.anubex.internal> <45741FBE.3000107@swipnet.se> <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> NNTP-Posting-Host: dough.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1165792540 22386 80.91.229.10 (10 Dec 2006 23:15:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2006 23:15:40 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Alan Mackenzie , Chong Yidong , emacs-devel@gnu.org, emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Dec 11 00:15:39 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by dough.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1GtXtS-0006sA-J9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 11 Dec 2006 00:15:38 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GtXtR-0001RP-Ul for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 10 Dec 2006 18:15:37 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GtXtA-0001Pw-NG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Dec 2006 18:15:20 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GtXt9-0001OF-L0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Dec 2006 18:15:20 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GtXt9-0001O9-Hv; Sun, 10 Dec 2006 18:15:19 -0500 Original-Received: from [195.41.46.236] (helo=pfepb.post.tele.dk) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1GtXt9-0004qv-01; Sun, 10 Dec 2006 18:15:19 -0500 Original-Received: from kfs-l.imdomain.dk.cua.dk (0x503e2644.bynxx19.adsl-dhcp.tele.dk [80.62.38.68]) by pfepb.post.tele.dk (Postfix) with SMTP id 2C558A50030; Mon, 11 Dec 2006 00:14:53 +0100 (CET) Original-To: Stefan Monnier In-Reply-To: (Stefan Monnier's message of "Sun\, 10 Dec 2006 16\:39\:03 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.91 (gnu/linux) 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:63553 gmane.emacs.pretest.bugs:15651 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier writes: >> 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. And most laptops still run at < 2GHz. This is not likely to improve much, as the trend is towards longer battery life rather than (usually unnecessary) faster CPUs. -- Kim F. Storm http://www.cua.dk