From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Barry Margolin Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Knowing where a function has been used (bis) [Was: Re: Optimising Elisp code] Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2018 18:32:41 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: <638fb7dc-6fc5-4645-8793-97a00038a3a8@googlegroups.com> <8hxojvzzzzzz.m4h.xxuns.g6.gal@portable.galex-713.eu> <20181006192457.GB7368@tuxteam.de> <86lg79yl54.fsf@zoho.com> <86d0slrb4h.fsf@zoho.com> <86d0sknoud.fsf@zoho.com> <86tvlvmxtz.fsf@zoho.com> <86woqprcdb.fsf@zoho.com> <8636tcl05a.fsf@zoho.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1539383607 25335 195.159.176.226 (12 Oct 2018 22:33:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2018 22:33:27 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.5.3b3 (Intel Mac OS X) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 13 00:33:22 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1gB5zm-0006Sd-3b for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 13 Oct 2018 00:33:22 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42956 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gB61s-0004wk-LV for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 12 Oct 2018 18:35:32 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!goblin3!goblin.stu.neva.ru!news.neodome.net!news.uzoreto.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!barmar.motzarella.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 24 Original-Injection-Info: barmar.motzarella.org; posting-host="10e0ed155405545b205266662ba43985"; logging-data="6840"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+LmZLQjzIPshAa8Fn9IIAl" Cancel-Lock: sha1:nom1OjmplaLblioHvJGvF17JIns= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:224132 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:118258 Archived-At: In article <8636tcl05a.fsf@zoho.com>, Emanuel Berg wrote: > Barry Margolin wrote: > > > I doubt that anyone makes decision about > > whether to split large functions into > > separate functions based on the overhead of > > function calling. > > This is what the Gnus people told me when > I suggested not writing functions that are > longer and deeper than a novel by Dostoevsky - > they said, ~"Gnus is slow, Elisp is slow, > making neat modules of those defuns will make > it even slower." Sounds like a bullshit rationalization. The real reason is probably that refactoring is a PITA. -- Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu Arlington, MA *** PLEASE post questions in newsgroups, not directly to me ***