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Been reading Lars' bug hunt logs since it started and its amazing. Guy retired rich and instead of lazying around or doing vain publicity/philanthropy he chose

Been reading Lars' bug hunt logs since it started and its amazing. Guy retired rich and instead of lazying around or doing vain publicity/philanthropy he chose to develop and maintain Emacs, all out in the open. Almost all the bugs fixed are also not his own. As a newbie Emacs user I reported a bug and Lars investigates and fixed it within couple of days! Real cool guy and we're quite lucky to have him around.

dvfjsdhgfv 4y ago
Yeah, the "Total Emacs Bugs" chart is amazing: https://quimby.gnus.org/circus/stats-emacs/stats-emacs.html https://quimby.gnus.org/circus/stats-emacs/stats-emacs.html
TacticalCoder 4y ago
He's amazing and reading his blog the other day prompted me to update my already kinda recent Emacs (I last build it in february 2022) to the latest master release. I haven't found out why yet but apparently Emacs now compiles faster too. On my 3700X / 32 GB of RAM I now get, using make -j 16 bootstrap 1m30s for the non native-compilation and 2m30s for the native-compilation version (which is the one I use). That's down from about 4 minutes six months ago on the same machine: I think something changed that makes compilation faster.
- e3bc54b2 4y ago
  Yep, that was Lars' doing as well. He ran like 1 years worth of Emacs builds on every commit to see where the big jumps occurred, dug down and fixed regressions. There were other people helping too, but I remember Lars being the driving force behind the endeavor.
donio 4y ago
> Guy retired rich Damn, didn't realize that those Pterodactyl Gnus mugs sold so well.
- e3bc54b2 4y ago
  That was fun read, thanks! For future reference: https://www.gnus.org/stuff/pterodactyl/pterodactyl.html https://www.gnus.org/stuff/pterodactyl/pterodactyl.html