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

[Marcin Borkowski]

On 2017-02-19, at 17:28, Mosè Giordano <address@hidden> wrote:

> 2017-02-19 14:35 GMT+01:00 Marcin Borkowski <address@hidden>:
>
>> I see.  In GNU Emacs, time-to-seconds is just an alias for float-time.
>> Does XEmacs have that?
>
> Already checked, no, unless it's under another name, but in
> `time-date.el' there is an elisp implementation of `time-to-seconds',
> we could use that for compatibility with XEmacs, if necessary.
>
>> 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 hope you had looked for typos before compiling ;-)

;-)

In fact, it's not really an issue, since it was just an initial run with
tikz's externalization library.  Subsequent runs went down from like 3
minutes to 1 minute.

> Bye,
> Mosè

Best,

-- 
Marcin Borkowski