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Re: Default of jit-lock-stealth-time
From: |
Stefan Monnier |
Subject: |
Re: Default of jit-lock-stealth-time |
Date: |
Sun, 25 Feb 2007 23:56:02 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.94 (gnu/linux) |
> Regardless of the system load: the load may be low at the moment
> _exactly_ because the user terminated all processes that would disturb
> the interactivity of his current work, and I think it a mistake that
> Emacs considers the CPU fit for grabbing for its own purposes unless
> the user _explicitly_ asked for it.
> Stealth fontification is intended to stop whenever the user types a
> character. So why would it interfere with the "interactivity" of
> Emacs commands? Is there a bug which prevents stealth fontification
> from stopping quickly?
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.
Stefan
- Default of jit-lock-stealth-time, David Kastrup, 2007/02/25
- Re: Default of jit-lock-stealth-time, martin rudalics, 2007/02/25
- Re: Default of jit-lock-stealth-time, Kim F. Storm, 2007/02/25
- Re: Default of jit-lock-stealth-time, Richard Stallman, 2007/02/25
- Re: Default of jit-lock-stealth-time,
Stefan Monnier <=
- Re: Default of jit-lock-stealth-time, Richard Stallman, 2007/02/26
- Re: Default of jit-lock-stealth-time, Eli Zaretskii, 2007/02/26
- Re: Default of jit-lock-stealth-time, Richard Stallman, 2007/02/27
- Re: Default of jit-lock-stealth-time, Eli Zaretskii, 2007/02/27
- Re: Default of jit-lock-stealth-time, Richard Stallman, 2007/02/28
- Re: Default of jit-lock-stealth-time, Eli Zaretskii, 2007/02/28
- Re: Default of jit-lock-stealth-time, Stefan Monnier, 2007/02/26
- Re: Default of jit-lock-stealth-time, David Kastrup, 2007/02/27
- Re: Default of jit-lock-stealth-time, Eli Zaretskii, 2007/02/27
- Re: Default of jit-lock-stealth-time, Richard Stallman, 2007/02/27