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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: string_char_to_byte and string_byte_to_char micro-optimisation
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2019 22:00:40 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83wohovvon.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b7788422-ec36-20ea-1a8e-28f2cf0f6109@cs.ucla.edu> (message from Paul Eggert on Fri, 14 Jun 2019 09:53:50 -0700)

> From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
> Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2019 09:53:50 -0700
> 
> On 6/14/19 5:37 AM, Robert Pluim wrote:
> > What I donʼt have is any intuition on whether such a change actually
> > makes any difference in real-world Emacs usage. Can anyone suggest any
> > benchmarks?
> 
> My usual benchmark for this sort of thing is 'make compile-always' in 
> the lisp directory.

I don't think that will do for this case.  Strings are used rather
rarely in Emacs.  We need to find a command that uses strings
extensively, and uses non-ASCII text in strings in particular.  Some
JSON processing with non-ASCII strings inside, perhaps?



  reply	other threads:[~2019-06-14 19:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-06-14 12:37 string_char_to_byte and string_byte_to_char micro-optimisation Robert Pluim
2019-06-14 16:53 ` Paul Eggert
2019-06-14 19:00   ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2019-06-14 20:11     ` Stefan Monnier
2019-06-15  6:22       ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-06-15  7:48         ` Stefan Monnier
2019-06-15 11:11           ` Noam Postavsky
2019-06-16 11:17             ` Stefan Monnier
2019-06-17  9:37   ` Robert Pluim

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