bug#8890: 23.3; message writing slows emacs

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Dave Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com> writes:

>>> If you're just updating percentage complete, please don't do
>>> it more than once every .5 seconds... at the fastest!
>>
>> Agreed, but that's something for the application programmers to
>> consider, not for the infrastructure.
>
> Well, not necessarily.  If emacs had a built-in, sanctioned "progress"
> library, people could use that and it would take care of the problem.

Emacs does clever screen updates, though.  So if the only thing that
changes is the number before the percentage, Emacs won't repaint the
entire line, I think?

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