>>>> "Stephen" == Stephen J Turnbull
<stephen(a)xemacs.org> writes:
Stephen> Raymond Toy writes:
> Perhaps there are still performance problems, but machines are
way
> faster now than when Mule was added. At least I don't notice anything
> for the kinds of editing and mail and news that I do. (Maybe I would
> if I ran xemacs without Mule?)
Stephen> If you ran VM for mail with 50MB+ mboxes or JDE on Java modules >
Stephen> 400KB you'd notice, I assure you. :-)
I used to use VM but switched to GNUS many years ago, exactly for that
reason.:-) I don't remember if I was using mule at the time, but I
probably was.
Stephen> Maybe most people wouldn't notice. I suppose we could try enabling
Stephen> Mule, and see if anybody screams in pain. Unfortunately, Xft requires
Stephen> a lot of work before that's a reasonable thing to do IMO, because I
Stephen> see no good reason to expect that bug reports will be addressed in a
Stephen> timely fashion (except for an automatic "patches welcome" from
me :-( ).
Mule might be ok, but I agree Xft is not yet ready, especially if
customize doesn't work.
Ray
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