From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: A question about read syntax and compiled backreferences Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2007 22:55:56 +0100 Message-ID: <85ac04xhg3.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1169934986 592 80.91.229.12 (27 Jan 2007 21:56:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2007 21:56:26 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Andreas Schwab , Miles Bader , Emacs Devel To: "Juanma Barranquero" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jan 27 22:56:19 2007 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 1HAvX1-0004OZ-1F for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 27 Jan 2007 22:56:19 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HAvX0-00051P-NO for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 27 Jan 2007 16:56:18 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HAvWk-0004y4-2g for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 27 Jan 2007 16:56:02 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HAvWh-0004ww-K4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 27 Jan 2007 16:56:01 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HAvWh-0004wt-I0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 27 Jan 2007 16:55:59 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-in-04.arcor-online.net ([151.189.21.44]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1HAvWg-0007fp-Dt; Sat, 27 Jan 2007 16:55:58 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-in-01-z2.arcor-online.net (mail-in-07-z2.arcor-online.net [151.189.8.19]) by mail-in-04.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id CFEFA17FC78; Sat, 27 Jan 2007 22:55:56 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from mail-in-04.arcor-online.net (mail-in-04.arcor-online.net [151.189.21.44]) by mail-in-01-z2.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id C48A810196; Sat, 27 Jan 2007 22:55:56 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from lola.goethe.zz (dslb-084-061-098-002.pools.arcor-ip.net [84.61.98.2]) by mail-in-04.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id A22D31C71D7; Sat, 27 Jan 2007 22:55:56 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id 373251C4D495; Sat, 27 Jan 2007 22:55:56 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: (Juanma Barranquero's message of "Sat\, 27 Jan 2007 18\:36\:05 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.92 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 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:65540 Archived-At: "Juanma Barranquero" writes: > On 1/27/07, Andreas Schwab wrote: > >> 16 minutes, to be precise. Without print-circle, it takes just a couple >> of seconds. > > Take a look at this thread: > > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-pretest-bug/2007-01/msg00470.html > > Kenichi has a patch to turn print-circle checking off via local > variables. It is not yet installed. In my book, this is just dealing with symptoms. I don't think that the ability to byte-compile code with circular lists is really important enough to warrant this sort of inconvenience. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum