From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2012 08:42:54 +0000 (-0800)
Subject: Small NEWS update re profiling
X-Git-Tag: emacs-24.2.90~125
X-Git-Url: http://git.eshelyaron.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=028a5e50d23276ad42e5b34a7c2e20e8dd96b0a8;p=emacs.git

Small NEWS update re profiling

The previously described sequence start, stop, report does nothing.
Ref http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2012-10/msg00010.html
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diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS
index 0136bedc19a..edc20318ef8 100644
--- a/etc/NEWS
+++ b/etc/NEWS
@@ -777,9 +777,9 @@ are deprecated and will be removed eventually.
 * Lisp changes in Emacs 24.3
 
 ** New sampling-based Elisp profiler.
-Try M-x profiler-start ... M-x profiler-stop; and then M-x profiler-report.
-The sampling rate can be based on CPU time (only supported on some
-systems), or based on memory allocations.
+Try M-x profiler-start, do some work, and then call M-x profiler-report.
+When finished, use M-x profiler-stop.  The sampling rate can be based on
+CPU time (only supported on some systems) or memory allocations.
 
 +++
 ** CL-style generalized variables are now in core Elisp.