RE: Is this "save practice" (setting default font scale)?

[arthur miller]

I know, but that's what I got. I did 5 measurements each time. Might be just too small difference to measure too.

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Från: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>

Datum: 2020-11-21 17:04 (GMT+01:00)

Till: Arthur Miller <arthur.miller@live.com>

Kopia: manuel.uberti@inventati.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org

Ämne: Re: Is this "save practice" (setting default font scale)?

> From: Arthur Miller <arthur.miller@live.com>
> Date: Sat, 21 Nov 2020 14:45:58 +0100
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
>
> > (custom-set-faces
> >  '(default ((t (:family "Anonymous Pro-16"
> >                 :height 140
> >                 :weight light)))))
> It seems to be just very slightly slower; but it might also be too small
> of a difference for my system to give a polite result.
>
> With above my startup is currently repporting times all betweeen ~0.2x
> to ~ 0.3x; with your version it is aroun ~0.3 to ~0.4 I measure 5
> startups every time.
>
> I don't see reasons why there would be a difference; it might be just
> fluctuations in my system. I dont' know how polite (emacs-init-time) is
> either.

AFAIU, custom-set-faces does a bit more than just set-face-attribute,
but I'd be surprised if that could account for 0.1 sec of time.