Re: How should this profiler report interpreted?

[Joost Kremers]

On Fri, Mar 26 2021, scame via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor wrote:
>> If you can reproduce this bogus profile, please `M-x report-emacs-bug`
>> (ideally with a corresponding sample file on which to run the code).
>
> I'll do that.
>
> The computer was not unresponsive, only emacs was slow and emacs profiler said
> 99% CPU.

I don't think that means it took 99% of the CPU (as you would see with e.g.,
top). I think it means that 99% of the CPU resources used to execute the
relevant Elisp fragment were spent in the `save-excursion`.

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Joost Kremers
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