Rich, As I understand processor performance, the longer a process runs the smaller time-slice it gets. This seems counter intuitive to me, but if this weren't the case, a process could hog the processor and would not let other processes run.
Ken On Sun, Jun 17, 2018 at 8:44 AM Rich Shepard <[email protected]> wrote: > I understand that emacs macros run interactively. One macro I'm using > concatenates three lines into one line. Running it singly execution is > quick. With 1000+ lines in the file I run it in repeat mode after checking > it's working properly: C-u 20 C-x e > > At first this runs quickly, but it slows to a crawl after several uses. > When I then execute the macro singly there is now a delay before it > completes. > > My web searches confirm that long execution of a macro can take a while, > but I've not found an explanation of why execution takes longer and longer > with each iteration. > > Your thoughts? > > Rich > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
