From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: cstacy@news.dtpq.com (Christopher C. Stacy) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Accelerating Emacs? Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 01:09:36 GMT Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1133140319 5082 80.91.229.2 (28 Nov 2005 01:11:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 01:11:59 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 28 02:11:58 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EgXXT-00016i-Id for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 28 Nov 2005 02:10:39 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EgXXT-0007JX-1g for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 27 Nov 2005 20:10:39 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news4.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!cyclone1.gnilink.net!spamkiller2.gnilink.net!gnilink.net!trndny06.POSTED!8b1f9295!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:ZkKS6HStYXXpByeA8jF3vltg2NM= Original-Lines: 16 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 68.163.196.89 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@verizon.net Original-X-Trace: trndny06 1133140176 68.163.196.89 (Sun, 27 Nov 2005 20:09:36 EST) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2005 20:09:36 EST Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:135836 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:31438 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: >> From: "Herbert Euler" >> Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 10:25:41 +0800 >> >> Emacs is undoubtly the most powerful editor because of >> its architecture, Elisp causes lots of problems solvable within >> Emacs. But Emacs seems to be a bit slower for the same >> reason. > > 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.