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Re: X performance suffers under emacs 21.1.1
From: |
ShengHuo ZHU |
Subject: |
Re: X performance suffers under emacs 21.1.1 |
Date: |
Fri, 14 Dec 2001 00:40:30 -0500 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.090004 (Oort Gnus v0.04) Emacs/21.1.50 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) |
Daniel Ortmann <address@hidden> writes:
> ShengHuo ZHU <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Daniel Ortmann <address@hidden> writes:
>
>>> Rerunning the test in A) gave me 19.0 seconds the second time instead
>>> of 27 seconds.
>>>
>>> Rerunning the first test in B) again took only 6 seconds.
>>>
>>> The difference seems to be that the slow article is uuencoded, and
>>> the fast one is mime.
>
>> It is because Emacs 21 has a native base64 decoder, but the uu decoder
>> is written in emacs-lisp. To speed it up, you can use the external
>> uudecode program, i.e.
>>
>> (setq mm-uu-decode-function 'uudecode-decode-region-external)
>
> Now I get times almost equally as fast with both uuencoded and mime
> images attached. (I set the variable using customize.)
>
> Would it be reasonable to detect the existence of uudecode at compile
> time (virtually a given on unix systems) and set the the default
> uudecode to external? The performance difference is notable.
>
> What do you think?
Done in the Gnus CVS. Detecting happens not in compile time, but in
loading time.
ShengHuo
- Re: X performance suffers under emacs 21.1.1, Daniel Ortmann, 2001/12/01
- Re: X performance suffers under emacs 21.1.1, Gerd Moellmann, 2001/12/01
- Re: X performance suffers under emacs 21.1.1, ShengHuo ZHU, 2001/12/01
- Re: X performance suffers under emacs 21.1.1, Daniel Ortmann, 2001/12/06
- Re: X performance suffers under emacs 21.1.1, ShengHuo ZHU, 2001/12/06
- Re: X performance suffers under emacs 21.1.1, Daniel Ortmann, 2001/12/07
- Re: X performance suffers under emacs 21.1.1, ShengHuo ZHU, 2001/12/10
- Re: X performance suffers under emacs 21.1.1, Daniel Ortmann, 2001/12/11
- Re: X performance suffers under emacs 21.1.1, ShengHuo ZHU, 2001/12/12
- Re: X performance suffers under emacs 21.1.1, Daniel Ortmann, 2001/12/12
- Re: X performance suffers under emacs 21.1.1,
ShengHuo ZHU <=
- Re: X performance suffers under emacs 21.1.1, Eli Zaretskii, 2001/12/12
- Re: X performance suffers under emacs 21.1.1, Daniel Ortmann, 2001/12/12
- Re: X performance suffers under emacs 21.1.1, Eli Zaretskii, 2001/12/13
- Re: X performance suffers under emacs 21.1.1, ShengHuo ZHU, 2001/12/14
- Re: X performance suffers under emacs 21.1.1, Eli Zaretskii, 2001/12/15
- Re: X performance suffers under emacs 21.1.1, Daniel Ortmann, 2001/12/07