Re: sit-for

[Chong Yidong]

David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:

>>> Since we have the new sit-for implementation, I have a lot of times
>>> when Emacs just pauses in busy waiting for input.  This happens
>>> spontaneously.  One situation where it happens frequently is when
>>> reading news with gnus.
>>
>> I haven't seen this problem in my usage of gnus.
>
> It is not just gnus.  And it is not easy to see: Emacs gets somewhat
> sluggish, sometimes the cursor blinks quite less than expected, and
> CPU usage goes up, up, up, which is of course mostly noticeable when
> you have power management, and the fans start waking up.

Does setting jit-lock-stealth-time to nil change anything?