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Re: Suggestion: default value of `font-lock-verbose' should be nil


From: Daniel Colascione
Subject: Re: Suggestion: default value of `font-lock-verbose' should be nil
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2011 21:07:59 -0800
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On 1/10/11 8:32 PM, Jambunathan K wrote:
> 
>>> The fontification messages cause noticeable slowdowns on OS X[1] in
>>> certain situations (e.g. viewing src code blocks in org-mode with
>>> `org-src-fontify-natively' turned on).
> 
> FWIW, I use Emacs on Windows. Having zero verbosity does improve the
> user experience tremedously.

ISTR a "huge performance increase" in garbage collection that came about
solely as a result of making garbage-collection-messages default to nil.
Perception is important.

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