Re: [AUCTeX-devel] A simple patch displaying compilation time

[Marcin Borkowski]

On 2017-02-19, at 12:43, Mosè Giordano <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hi Marcin,
>
> 2017-02-19 8:45 GMT+01:00 Marcin Borkowski <address@hidden>:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I have finally become bored enough of going to Eshell and saying "time
>> pdflatex <whetever>" instead of just pressing C-c C-c that I decided to
>> spend a few minutes writing this quite trivial patch.  I would be
>> thankful for reviewing it and telling me what I should change in case
>> I messed something up (or accepting it if I didn't;-)).
>
> Neat!  However XEmacs doesn't have `time-to-seconds' function, so
> probably `TeX-compilation-time' should be called only if the function
> is defined.  Probably we should seriously discuss if we still want to
> support XEmacs.

I see.  In GNU Emacs, time-to-seconds is just an alias for float-time.
Does XEmacs have that?

As a curiosity, today I had a record-breaking compilation time: more
than 14ksec (almost 4 hours), and that on a i5 processor and 8 MB RAM
laptop!

> I'd hold on this patch to see whether someone has other concerns about
> it (in that case this can be made optional), otherwise I'd be happy to
> apply the patch.  Thank you!

You're welcome!

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Marcin Borkowski