Re: HOWTO: lightning fast Emacs on Linux multicore

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2014 12:49:52 -0700
> From: Bob Proulx <bob@proulx.com>
> 
> > Now, Emacs has a core to itself and should run much
> > faster, at least for normal usage.
> 
> I am happy if you are happy with the above.  However I recommend not
> doing this.

Seconded.

> I think it is better to allow the kernel to optimize process
> scheduling itself.  As I said, if you are happy then I am happy for
> you.  But I wouldn't recommend this to others since it will generally
> slow down the system.

In general, one should keep out of the scheduler's way, unless they
have a VERY good reason.  Such reasons can only pop up when you need
to run some software with hard real-time deadlines (and even then
there are better ways).  Any other reason is by definition to good
enough.