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Re: The speed of Emacs 21
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John Wiegley |
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Re: The speed of Emacs 21 |
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Tue, 31 Oct 2000 11:27:49 -0700 |
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Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/21.0.90 |
>>>>> On Tue Oct 31, Eli writes:
> Yes, this is turned on by default to hunt an elusive memory-related
> bug. It certainly slows down Emacs significantly. However, it does
> not explain the massive consing that John reports (assuming that the
> previous versions didn't do all that consing).
If you try the e21 from around Jun/Aug, it did not have these speed
problems at all. There have been a lot of changes in alloc.c since
that time, but I can't begin to say where the problem lies.