From: Sergey Vinokurov <serg.foo@gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 53242@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#53242: [PATCH] unify reads from local_var_alist
Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2022 11:41:02 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <15fa68fa-2bb2-eaf4-885b-abdff1e3f61f@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83ee591mkr.fsf@gnu.org>
On 15/01/2022 07:32, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> My argument is that at this point we don't care whether user is able
>> to interrupt basic operations of reading and writing buffer-local
>> variables.
>
> "We" might not care, but the user could very much care. We in effect
> locked the users without no way to handle these situations.
>
>> Even if we use Fassq and the user could interrupt, nothing is gained
>> in my opinion - any command that involves reading or writing
>> buffer-local variables will still remain slow.
>
> The commands will remain slow, but the users could stop Emacs from
> wasting their time. Now they cannot. Saying that "we don't care"
> means we don't care about our users, which is certainly not true.
I agree with your position but see a more further-reaching conclusion.
If there's a risk of the list being really long the Emacs can employ a
different data structure, e.g. a hash table, to make reads and writes of
variables fast regardless of the number of entries. In my opinion such a
change would serve users even better as there would be no need to
interrupt any slow operations because there would be none.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-01-15 11:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-01-14 0:23 bug#53242: [PATCH] unify reads from local_var_alist Sergey Vinokurov
2022-01-14 7:49 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-01-14 8:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-01-14 8:33 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-01-14 18:37 ` Sergey Vinokurov
2022-01-14 19:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-01-14 21:01 ` Sergey Vinokurov
2022-01-15 7:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-01-15 11:41 ` Sergey Vinokurov [this message]
2022-01-15 16:02 ` Corwin Brust
2022-01-15 17:54 ` Sergey Vinokurov
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