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Re: Keeping replace-buffer-contents runtime in bounds
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Philipp Stephani |
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Re: Keeping replace-buffer-contents runtime in bounds |
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Sun, 24 Feb 2019 21:13:03 +0100 |
Am So., 24. Feb. 2019 um 11:12 Uhr schrieb Tassilo Horn <address@hidden>:
>
> Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
>
> >> In the end I settled for a maximum number of seconds one can define
> >> by setting a new variable replace-buffer-contents-max-secs, so that
> >> you can define what's still acceptable in the respective use-case.
> >> (Actually, if you set that to 1.5 or so, it may still run for 2 or
> >> more seconds because the EARLY_ABORT expression isn't tested at
> >> regular intervals or rather it is, but the intervals don't take
> >> equally long.)
> >>
> >> If that number of seconds is over, compareseq returns early and
> >> replace-buffer-contents falls back to plain delete and insert.
> >
> > The gotcha about aborting after more than the time-out value should be
> > mentioned in the doc string.
> >
> > Thanks for working on this. My only other comment is that maybe we
> > should allow passing the time-out value via the function's arguments,
> > not via a global variable. It seems to me the time-out will be used
> > in more use cases than MAX-COSTS, and in any case treating these two
> > differently API-wise sounds strangely inconsistent.
>
> I've done that and landed it in master.
Thanks. However, the variable replace-buffer-contents-max-secs is
still present, did you maybe keep it by mistake?
- Keeping replace-buffer-contents runtime in bounds, Tassilo Horn, 2019/02/16
- Re: Keeping replace-buffer-contents runtime in bounds, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/02/17
- Re: Keeping replace-buffer-contents runtime in bounds, Tassilo Horn, 2019/02/17
- Re: Keeping replace-buffer-contents runtime in bounds, Tassilo Horn, 2019/02/24
- Re: Keeping replace-buffer-contents runtime in bounds, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/02/24
- Re: Keeping replace-buffer-contents runtime in bounds,
Philipp Stephani <=
- Re: Keeping replace-buffer-contents runtime in bounds, Tassilo Horn, 2019/02/25
- Re: Keeping replace-buffer-contents runtime in bounds, Tassilo Horn, 2019/02/25
- Re: Keeping replace-buffer-contents runtime in bounds, Stefan Monnier, 2019/02/25
- Re: Keeping replace-buffer-contents runtime in bounds, Tassilo Horn, 2019/02/26