Re: jit-lock-antiblink-grace

[Alan Mackenzie]

Hello, Eli.

On Sun, Nov 24, 2019 at 18:16:49 +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > From: João Távora <address@hidden>
> > Cc: emacs-devel <address@hidden>,  Stefan Monnier
> >  <address@hidden>
> > Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2019 01:04:53 +0000

> > João Távora <address@hidden> writes:

> > > On Tue, Oct 15, 2019 at 7:48 AM Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:

> > >> This is encouraging, but please try C-n near the end of xdisp.c, so
> > >> that it includes syms_of_xdisp.  The first 350 lines of xdisp.c is one
> > >> large comment, and there's a very small number of strings after that.

> > > 30 seconds from syms_of_xdisp (void) in src/xdisp.c:
> > >   with antiblink: 34969, around 7% load measured by Process Explorer
> > >   without: 34977, also around 7% load

> > Hi Eli,

> > We seem to have lost track of this, and it's waiting for your input.  I'd
> > like this change to make it 27.1.

> I was under the impression that you had some issues with Alan, and
> didn't realize you were waiting for me.  Sorry.

Just for the record, I have no objection to this new mode, provided it is
disabled by default.

> > If you need to gain more confidence from more benchmarks or a refresher
> > on exactly what this change is about, I'm at your disposal.  If you
> > think you're OK with the performance aspect, I'll perform the changes to
> > the docstrings and NEWS that we had agreed to previously.

> Please add/finalize the docs, and let's take it from there.

> One thing I see already is that you turned on this feature by default,
> but NEWS is worded as if it is off.  Not sure if we had a consensus
> regarding the default back then.

> Thanks.

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).