From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs Lisp's future Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2014 18:03:45 +0300 Message-ID: <83iokm2sry.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87wq97i78i.fsf@earlgrey.lan> <87sijqxzr2.fsf@newcastle.ac.uk> <87egvaxshd.fsf@newcastle.ac.uk> <83k3522ulo.fsf@gnu.org> <87tx46tj3f.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1410966261 19702 80.91.229.3 (17 Sep 2014 15:04:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2014 15:04:21 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: David Kastrup Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 17 17:04:13 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XUGmC-0006Uc-De for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 17 Sep 2014 17:04:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45542 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XUGmB-0001nB-PO for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 17 Sep 2014 11:04:11 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:51540) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XUGm2-0001eP-UC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Sep 2014 11:04:08 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XUGlw-0000Tt-UZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Sep 2014 11:04:02 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout24.012.net.il ([80.179.55.180]:44473) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XUGlq-0000St-EN; Wed, 17 Sep 2014 11:03:50 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.mtaout24.012.net.il by mtaout24.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NC100N00VYI6Q00@mtaout24.012.net.il>; Wed, 17 Sep 2014 17:58:26 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by mtaout24.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NC100J2QW9EI850@mtaout24.012.net.il>; Wed, 17 Sep 2014 17:58:26 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <87tx46tj3f.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 80.179.55.180 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:174433 Archived-At: > From: David Kastrup > Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2014 16:30:44 +0200 > > One of the most costly changes was post 20.2 (?) when buffer and string > positions became expressed as character offsets rather than byte > offsets. Yes, well, but that was more than 10 years ago (1997, if you are right and it was 20.2).