Help debugging elisp and emacs display engine

[Cody Goodman]

I'm trying to debug emacs scrolling issues in long files, this elisp[0] doesn't seem to benchmark the redrawing or slownesses and claims "Elapsed time: 0.000003s". I'm guessing this is because of the problem residing in the display engine that is written in C?

I'm also trying to follow how scroll-up-command passes values or sends arguments to the display engine so I know where to start profiling it and digging deeper into this problem.

When I get the following cpu report, it's not clear where/how the display engine is called:

- command-execute                                                3526  99%
 - call-interactively                                            3526  99%
  - funcall-interactively                                        3147  88%
   - scroll-up-command                                           2900  81%
    - apply                                                      2900  81%
     - #<compiled 0x8db10b>                                      2900  81%
      - apply                                                    2896  81%
         #<compiled 0x22d001>                                    2896  81%

How do I begin to debug these compiled functions? How do I trace the context/variables that apply might send to the display engine?

Thanks in advance for any help.


0: elisp code
(defun test-long-line-scrolling (n)
  (with-selected-window (get-buffer-window "long-lines-file-test-emacs.txt")
    (goto-char (point-max))
    (dolist '(number-sequence 0 n)
      (scroll-down))))

;; TODO: lookup how benchmark works
(benchmark 10 (test-long-line-scrolling 100))