>> I agree that downloading a lot of files will be silly. Perhaps I will >> set up a pool of 20 or so buffers for downloads and block or error >> when the pool is exhausted. > > My guess is that the possible performance hit you'd get by using 100 or > 1000 buffers would still be insignificant. > > Stefan "whose Emacs routinely has 100 buffers"
M-: (length (buffer-list)) RET 322 I rarely close visited files and use desktop.el. This way I give Emacs pretty good stress-testing. With so many buffers some Emacs packages (Dired, Info) suffer from the noticeable slowdown. However, I can't definitely attribute this to the number of buffers, because in `emacs -Q -D' after (dotimes (i 1000) (generate-new-buffer "buffer")) there is no slowdown. -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/ _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel
