Re: comments on ntemacs 21.0.91

[Andrew Innes]

On Fri, 01 Dec 2000 12:14:40 +0200, "Eli Zaretskii" <address@hidden> said:
>>Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2000 03:17:56 -0500
>>From: Miles Bader <address@hidden>
>>
>>[I have to wonder what machine the previous poster is running on; I find
>>emacs 21 redisplay more than fast enough on a pentium 133, and quite blazing
>>on anything faster...]
>
>Gerd, I seem to recall that you once said Emacs 21 was slightly faster
>than Emacs 20, as far as redisplay is concerned.  Is that right?  If
>not, what is the speed ratio people should expect during redisplay,
>such as scrolling, etc.?

For reference, my value of half the speed in 21 compared with 20 is only
based on scrolling through a buffer (that is, calling next-line 3000
times while visiting loaddefs.el).  Code is attached for anyone
interested in trying/improving it.

time-action.el
Description: Time scrolling (or other actions)

AndrewI