From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/9360 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Karl Anderson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: slow splitting Date: Thu, 9 Jan 1997 16:39:06 -0800 Message-ID: <199701100040.BAA00653@ifi.uio.no> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035149397 17992 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 21:29:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 21:29:57 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@ifi.uio.no Return-Path: Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (0@ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by deanna.miranova.com (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id QAA08612 for ; Thu, 9 Jan 1997 16:58:39 -0800 Original-Received: from ctshp.celtech.com (ctshp.celtech.com [192.84.22.14]) by ifi.uio.no with ESMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Fri, 10 Jan 1997 01:40:25 +0100 Original-Received: by ctshp.celtech.com (1.39.111.2/16.2) id AA031186746; Thu, 9 Jan 1997 16:39:06 -0800 Original-To: Chris Jones In-Reply-To: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:9360 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:9360 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