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> From: cstacy@news.dtpq.com (Christopher C. Stacy)
> Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 01:09:36 GMT
> 
> > Primitive operations that are used a lot and need to be
> > fast are written in C, not in Lisp.
> 
> Just for the record: the above optimization strategy is an artifact 
> of this Emacs-Lisp interpreter, not the Lisp language in general.

Just for the record: this is gnu.emacs.help, so this Emacs-Lisp
interpreter is the only one that matters here.