Re: [Ok, with patch] XEmacs 21.5-b20 "cilantro" (+CVS-20050310) s parc-sun-solaris2.8
>>>> "Stephen" == Stephen J Turnbull
<stephen(a)xemacs.org> writes:
>>>> "Raymond" == Raymond Toy
<raymond.toy(a)ericsson.com> writes:
>>>> "Adrian" == Adrian Aichner
<adrian(a)xemacs.org> writes:
Stephen> I think there have been changes to both the regexp code and to
Stephen> font-lock which might affect Gnus.
Stephen> Are you running with error-checking on in Mule? This increases
Stephen> computation by a full factor of N (N = buffer size) to many
Stephen> operations, as with a variable-width representation of characters
Stephen> checking position-computing code may require starting from the
Stephen> beginning....
I've always run with Mule enabled with error-checking. I didn't know
it made it that bad, otherwise I probably would have quit building
with Mule since I'm illiterate anyway.
Stephen> (setq gc-cons-threshold (* 8 1000 1000)) is probably a good idea on
Stephen> most hardware; is there anybody trying to run XEmacs in 16MB anymore?
Heh. My gc-cons-threshold is 500000. I don't think I set that
myself.
I'll try it out.
Stephen> The only optimization I've heard of that actually produces measurable
Stephen> speedup is -Os ;-). You might try that.
From what you say, killing Mule would be a bigger win.
Thanks for your help,
Ray