From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: t and nil in pure memory? Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 17:38:25 -0500 Message-ID: References: <200911112023.nABKNrH6023933@godzilla.ics.uci.edu> <83my2so094.fsf@gnu.org> <83iqdeom6o.fsf@gnu.org> <83y6m9mirc.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1258324820 24766 80.91.229.12 (15 Nov 2009 22:40:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 22:40:20 +0000 (UTC) Cc: dann@ics.uci.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Nov 15 23:40:13 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1N9nlU-0005bg-A6 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 15 Nov 2009 23:40:12 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50759 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1N9nlT-0005g8-K3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 15 Nov 2009 17:40:11 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1N9njr-0004rK-5F for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 15 Nov 2009 17:38:31 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1N9njm-0004nE-8x for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 15 Nov 2009 17:38:30 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=44562 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1N9njm-0004nA-16 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 15 Nov 2009 17:38:26 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:39152) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1N9njl-0007zb-NV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 15 Nov 2009 17:38:25 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1N9njl-0007JV-J8; Sun, 15 Nov 2009 17:38:25 -0500 In-reply-to: <83y6m9mirc.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Sat, 14 Nov 2009 13:46:15 +0200) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:117020 Archived-At: But a 1% speedup will not transform "annoying" into "not annoying", and thus will make no one happier. Once in a while, this small speedup will be enough to make that difference for a particular person. With so many users, it adds up. Also, several such small speedups do add up.