Re: slow splitting

[Karl Anderson <karla@celtech.com>]

cjones@rupert.oscs.montana.edu (Chris Jones) wrote:


>Anyway, I've noticed that my
>blood pressure stays much lower if I know what the program is doing
>that is making it take so long.

Now _this_ is something that I'd really like to see throughout emacs.
I remember playing with setting my debugger to something silly, &
debug-on-entry -ing read.

>Should I turn these hook expressions into full-fledged patches, and
>send them in?  The reason I'm asking is this:  If you're running on a
>really fast box (and you have simple splitting rules, which I don't),
>those messages could just whiz by you, potentially causing some worry
>because the thing's printing messages that you don't get an
>opportunity to read.
>
>I hope y'all will forgive me if I'm being too pedantic.

Well, if we're being pedantic, a simple period is enough to indicate
progress.  Then nobody's blood pressure rises because a million
messages are whizzing by & possibly important ones are being lost.
Also, it'll prevent a messages buffer full of a million lines that eats
up memory.  Hey, it might be the straw that breaks the camel's back.

karla@celtech.com      Karl Anderson      <URL:http://www.reed.edu/~karl>