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Re: [PATCH] 5x speedup of flyspell-buffer
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Eli Zaretskii |
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Re: [PATCH] 5x speedup of flyspell-buffer |
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Fri, 14 Apr 2023 09:54:37 +0300 |
> From: "Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide" <arne_bab@web.de>
> Cc: Ilya Zakharevich <nospam-abuse@ilyaz.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2023 08:39:10 +0200
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> > OK, then N = 50 should do the same trick.
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> Wouldn’t that then show too few messages for small buffers?
There's no sense of showing messages for jobs that finish so fast.
> I quite like the logarithmic message showing, because it ensures that
> the user is informed of progress while avoiding a constant spew of
> messages.
The need for informing the user about the progress only exists when
the operation takes long enough time.
> The only thing I worry about is that there may at some point be too few
> messages, so a maximum might be useful to ensure that there is some
> progress notification at least once every few seconds. Otherwise users
> could think that it stalled.
How much over-engineering are we willing to put into this nit?