On Aug 25, Sam TH wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 8:15 AM, Eli Barzilay<e...@barzilay.org> wrote:
> > On Aug 24, Robby Findler wrote:
> >>
> >> Just to give you some sense of this, on my machine the times range
> >> from 3 msec to 275 msec, a huge range! Also note that you may want
> >> to run the code multiple times; it sometimes gives bad results (I'm
> >> not sure why).
>
> For me (on a brand-new Linux desktop), it was necessary to go from
> 100 to 1000 iterations. With only 100, all the times were very
> short, and the fancy fonts were fastest. With 1000, the results
> made more sense, with the fancy fonts being slower.
Ah, that helped -- raising it to 10000 I got some differences, going
from 34ms to around 1s.
BTW, there is a MS font, Consolas, that works very nicely for hacking.
I use it in Emacs -- but for DrScheme Inconsolata (which is a free
font that is trying to have a similar look) is also very good.
(I prefer Consolas since it's a little bolder, but it has the
typographically-correct-therefore-imbalanced backquote/quote pair. In
Emacs I can hack around this by making these characters render as the
unicode left/right quotes. Inconsolata has intentionally made the
shapes closer to being balanced than the default (but not
completely).)
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