Re: Dired 7.9 bug: patch for XEmacs efficiency

Michael Sperber [Mr. Preprocessor] (sperber@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de)
25 May 1998 15:55:06 +0200


>>>>> "DO" =3D=3D Darryl Okahata <darrylo@sr.hp.com> writes:

DO> FYI,

DO>      Under XEmacs, indenting a fontified region is very expensive and
DO> time-consumin.  The included patch indents the dired buffer before
DO> fontifying it.  On the XEmacs MS Windows port, this patch improves the
DO> speed by a factor of 1.5-3X.

Wasn't it you who sent this patch to the XEmacs lists originally?  If
I remember correctly, it caused some problems which prompted us to
back them out.  Or is this a different, improved fix?

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Cheers =3D8-} Mike
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