Re: Some thoughts about Emacs performance

[Robert Boyer <robertstephenboyer@gmail.com>]

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> Another option might be contributing to Emacs C sources.

Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman.  1.  sort in Emacs is, I do believe,
written in C and seems ok, but could be improved. 2. You probably cannot
imagine, in this day, how totally ignorant I am of C!  It is unforgivable.

> it is not yet clear how long it will take to implement type declaration
support.

My bet is that it will be a long time coming, from the vibes I get.  But
what do I know?

Bob


On Mon, Feb 19, 2024 at 6:25 AM Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net> wrote:

> Robert Boyer <robertstephenboyer@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > I say I fear for the worst because if that bug is what I think it is, it
> > would kill 'msa' performance.
> > Very secondarily, even if the bug is fixed, I have no idea how I could
> ever
> > take advantage of it!
>
> As Andrea mentioned in
> https://yhetil.org/emacs-devel/yp1cyssanrp.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org/, type
> declarations are not yet supported and it is not yet clear how long it
> will take to implement type declaration support.
>
> If you wish to contribute a better sorting to Emacs, another option
> might be contributing to Emacs C sources. Check out src/sort.c file
> (tim_sort) for the sort implementation that is currently in use.
> https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/tree/src/sort.c#n915
>
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