Re: Shrinking the C core

[Arthur Miller]

Andrea Monaco <andrea.monaco@autistici.org> writes:

> Turning a program into multi-threaded _may_ make it faster and more
> responsive, but that is not necessary nor sufficient.
>
> As an example on my laptop, Emacs (a big single-threaded program) is
> faster and more responsive than web browsers and mail clients (big
> multi-threaded programs).

I am affraid that would be very missleading comparison. Your browsers do
a __lot__ more work than Emacs does, and I mean __lot__. It is like
saying Notepad is so very much faster than Gimp. Trying opening an image
of size say 1200z1024 in Emacs and zoom in/out, compare to the same
operation in  your browser.

> Sometimes emacs freezes briefly, but so do the other programs.
>
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>
> Andrea Monaco