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Re: Mysterious fontification/C++ context issue


From: Kim F. Storm
Subject: Re: Mysterious fontification/C++ context issue
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2006 00:14:50 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.91 (gnu/linux)

Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:

>> In the time Emacs 22 is the current release, a typical new PC will come to
>> be around 20 GHz, and this slowness will not matter.
>
> Actually, "recent" trends indicate that this is not true.  We'll probably
> see typical new PCs with 4-16 CPUs, each one running at 4-5GHz, but that
> won't help Emacs much.

And most laptops still run at < 2GHz.  This is not likely to improve
much, as the trend is towards longer battery life rather than
(usually unnecessary) faster CPUs.

-- 
Kim F. Storm <address@hidden> http://www.cua.dk





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