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From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
To: Wayne Harris <wharris1@protonmail.com>
Cc: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: on a buffer performance test on GNU EMACS 28
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2020 10:23:25 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <871rk6ijxu.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <861rk7xs1n.fsf@protonmail.com> (Wayne Harris's message of "Sat, 15 Aug 2020 23:07:00 -0300")

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. :)


  reply	other threads:[~2020-08-16 17:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-08-16  2:07 Wayne Harris
2020-08-16 17:23 ` Eric Abrahamsen [this message]
2020-08-17  3:57   ` Wayne Harris
2020-08-19  2:02     ` Wayne Harris
2020-08-19 16:27       ` Eric Abrahamsen
2020-08-20  2:22         ` Rafi Khan
2020-08-20  3:02           ` Eric Abrahamsen
2020-08-20  3:36             ` Wayne Harris
2020-08-20 14:14               ` Wayne Harris
2020-08-20 18:02                 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2020-08-20 21:55                   ` Jason Tibbitts
2020-08-20 22:44                     ` Eric Abrahamsen
2020-08-21  3:52                       ` Wayne Harris
2020-08-21  2:01                     ` 황병희
2020-08-21  0:12                   ` Wayne Harris
2020-08-20  2:57         ` Wayne Harris

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