On 10/9/07, Scionforbai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> is it only me or has anyone else the problem that running an R > >>> process within emacs is way much slower than in a regular terminal/ > >>> console? > > >> It's just you, and if you think some more about it, you'll see > >> why we are all grinning. [ Hint: it can't be slower, outside of > >> ridiculous corner sitations > > > I, personally, see tremendous slowdowns in XEmacs responsiveness when > > the buffer gets large, probably due to font-lock pretty-printing > > stuff. Since ESS can't / doesn't submit the next command until the > > fontification is done, things can slow down by a lot. > > Ok, so I am not the only one. Yes, I am using an old laptop with just > 256M of ram, archlinux on it. Ess output it's just too slow, it gets > me nervous. Is there a way to disable the syntax highlighting in the R > buffer? Any other hint on what could improve my emacs+ess > responsiveness? >
Maybe this is trivial and/or obvious, but what I do is delete the old output from the buffer. So, yes, I see a slow down (with Emacs + ESS) when I have several tens of thousands of output lines (often the result of printing out something I really did not want to see). But I've never noticed this slow down when I refrain from filling up the buffer with tens of thousands of lines. R. > Actually, it is the same with auctex compiling latex documents: C-c > C-c RET takes a little more time than a simple pdflatex run, and way > more when the log buffer is opened. > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > -- Ramon Diaz-Uriarte Statistical Computing Team Structural Biology and Biocomputing Programme Spanish National Cancer Centre (CNIO) http://ligarto.org/rdiaz ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
