[debbugs-tracker] bug#30490: closed (26.0; Elisp manual: indexing performance analysis)

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regarding 26.0; Elisp manual: indexing performance analysis
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> 26.0; Elisp manual: indexing performance analysis
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> Fri, 16 Feb 2018 10:03:01 -0800 (PST)
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> In the Elisp manual, `i perform TAB' shows `performance analysis'.
> Following that takes you to node `Coverage Testing' in the Edebug
> section.  That's hardly what I'd call a topic about performance
> analysis, but I didn't study it in detail.
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> The real bug here is that there is nothing else indexed under the
> term "performance".  (Perhaps some similar word is used, but
> "performance" is what came to my mind to look for.)
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> `i profil TAB' shows `profiling', which takes you to node `Profiling'.
> Isn't that about "performance analysis"?  Shouldn't it, rather than, or
> in addition to, `Coverage Testing' be indexed for "performance"?
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> In GNU Emacs 26.0.91 (build 1, x86_64-w64-mingw32)
>  of 2018-01-22
> Repository revision: 752fba992b793a74d202c9cfc3e1a92fd458e748
> Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 6.1.7601
> Configured using:
>  `configure --without-dbus --host=x86_64-w64-mingw32
>  --without-compress-install 'CFLAGS=-O2 -static -g3''
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> Re: bug#30490: 26.0; Elisp manual: indexing performance analysis
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> Sat, 17 Feb 2018 11:18:44 +0200
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> > Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2018 10:03:01 -0800 (PST)
> > From: Drew Adams <address@hidden>
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> > In the Elisp manual, `i perform TAB' shows `performance analysis'.
> > Following that takes you to node `Coverage Testing' in the Edebug
> > section.  That's hardly what I'd call a topic about performance
> > analysis, but I didn't study it in detail.
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> That section describes also frequency counting, which is a sort of
> performance analysis.
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> > The real bug here is that there is nothing else indexed under the
> > term "performance".  (Perhaps some similar word is used, but
> > "performance" is what came to my mind to look for.)
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> > `i profil TAB' shows `profiling', which takes you to node `Profiling'.
> > Isn't that about "performance analysis"?  Shouldn't it, rather than, or
> > in addition to, `Coverage Testing' be indexed for "performance"?
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> I fixed the indexing to lead also to "Profiling" in this case.
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> Thanks.
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