Re: X performance suffers under emacs 21.1.1

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: ShengHuo ZHU <address@hidden>
> Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 12:19:37 -0500
> 
> "Eli Zaretskii" <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> >> 2049 total artical lines for for the mime article.
> >> 2307 total article lines for the the uuencoded article.
> >
> > That would suggest that the Lisp implementation of uu decoder needs
> > some speedup, no?  2300 lines is not so large to justify 20 seconds of
> > run time, I think.
> 
> I've modified uudecode.el (in the Gnus CVS) to speedup it by using
> temporary lists instead of working buffers. It roughly cuts down the
> run time from 30 sec to 20 sec (on a P-III 700), when decoding a 600K
> decoded file (the encoded file has 14123 lines).  Any more suggestion?

I'd suggest to profile the decoder (using elp.el) and see which part
takes the bulk of the running time.  Unless you've done that already,
that is.