From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: t and nil in pure memory? Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2009 13:46:15 +0200 Message-ID: <83y6m9mirc.fsf@gnu.org> References: <200911112023.nABKNrH6023933@godzilla.ics.uci.edu> <83my2so094.fsf@gnu.org> <83iqdeom6o.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1258199248 5850 80.91.229.12 (14 Nov 2009 11:47:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2009 11:47:28 +0000 (UTC) Cc: dann@ics.uci.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Nov 14 12:47:21 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 1N9H69-0001mi-8x for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 14 Nov 2009 12:47:21 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:51577 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1N9H68-00058i-My for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 14 Nov 2009 06:47:20 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1N9H63-00058V-CC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 14 Nov 2009 06:47:15 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1N9H5y-000583-Kw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 14 Nov 2009 06:47:14 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=40490 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1N9H5y-000580-Fp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 14 Nov 2009 06:47:10 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]:59366) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1N9H5w-0002B1-I2; Sat, 14 Nov 2009 06:47:08 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0KT300M00KMKI500@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Sat, 14 Nov 2009 13:46:15 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.70.37.193]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0KT300HLYKP219B0@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Sat, 14 Nov 2009 13:46:15 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) 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:116976 Archived-At: > From: Richard Stallman > CC: dann@ics.uci.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2009 06:23:16 -0500 > > No matter how many people use Emacs, the 1% speedup will still save > only 1% of the time for each one of them. > > Sure, but even if it is only a small improvement for each person, it > is still worth doing if it is easy. Suppose that this small speedup > transforms "annoying" into "not annoying" for just one user in a > thousand each day. That would mean that, each day, hundreds or thousands > of people are happier. But a 1% speedup will not transform "annoying" into "not annoying", and thus will make no one happier.