Re: on a buffer performance test on GNU EMACS 28

[Wayne Harris <wharris1@protonmail.com>]

Wayne Harris <wharris1@protonmail.com> writes:

> Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
>
>> Wayne Harris <wharris1@protonmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> On Windows, I said M-x run-python, then said
>>>
>>>   for i in range(100000): print(i)
>>>
>>> on both GNU EMACS 28 and GNU EMACS 24.  I timed the speed of the
>>> buffer to scroll up.  I used my own phone's stop watch.  I started out
>>> the slow one first, which was EMACS 24, only after it was running I
>>> started the clock, then I started GNU EMACS 28's code.  The result was
>>>
>>> GNU EMACS 28 finishes in less than 8.00 seconds.  GNU EMACS 24
>>> finishes after 24.44 seconds.  Incredible difference.  I suppose this
>>> will make me upgrade to GNU EMACS 28.
>>>
>>> How do you explain this marvelous difference?  Could there i386 versus
>>> i686 have anything to do this?  I would doubt it.
>>
>> You probably want to send this to emacs.help or emacs.devel -- this
>> group is emacs.gnus.general, which is specifically for development work
>> on Emacs' Gnus newsreader and mail client. Here at Gnus we're still
>> waiting for our 3x speedup. :)
>
> This was an accident.  I apologize.  I thought I had written to USENET's
> gnu.emacs.help.  Thanks for the kind reply!

But, you see, I believe gnu.emacs.help mirrors some mail list and when I
post to it, I think it stays in the newsgroup instead of going to the
mail list.  Why do I think that?  I think someone told me that once, so
I guess I didn't even quite follow the implicit advice there.  Anyhow, I
think my emacs.help community is actually very small.

I don't really know how it works.  Must I subscribe myself to
emacs.help, the mail list?  Perhaps if I were a subscriber, then my
messages would go to the mail list.  Alright, I just did that.  I'm
subscribed.  Let's see what happens.

Thanks!