Re: Dired 7.9 bug: patch for XEmacs efficiency
Darryl Okahata (darrylo@sr.hp.com)
Mon, 25 May 1998 12:09:33 -0700
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sperber@Informatik.Uni-Tuebingen.De (Michael Sperber [Mr. Preprocessor]) wrote:
> 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?
Yes.
> If
> I remember correctly, it caused some problems which prompted us to
> back them out. Or is this a different, improved fix?
The "problem" was that the first set of patches included fixes to
dired, which was untouchable in XEmacs (and the patches were, therefore,
rejected). I submitted a second set of patches which didn't include
dired patches, and those were accepted (the XEmacs and dired patches
were independent of one another, although both were for performance
issues). I'm finally getting around to submitting the dired patches to
efs-bugs.
As far as I know, there are no problems with these patches.
-- Darryl Okahata
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