Re: Stealth fontification GCs a lot

[Stefan Monnier]

>> The problem is that I've never noticed any positive effect of stealth
>> fontification
> It decreases the time it takes to page through a file.

That's the theory, I'm talking about practice.

>> whereas any setting, no matter how low will eat up my battery for no
>> good reason.

> Perhaps we should have a primitive that checks for a laptop running on
> batteries, so that customizations and background ops could test for it
> and behave accordingly.

and now we also have power-control on servers, not to prolong battery time
but to reduce heat.  I really don't think it's worth the trouble to try and
recognize "those cases where we can do it without harm".


        Stefan