From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: request for review: Doing direct file I/O in Emacs Lisp
Date: 10 May 2004 14:21:54 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <878yg0rvr3.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <uoeowcgzr.fsf@ID-87814.user.dfncis.de>
> FWIW … while working on an RTF reader I found it very annoying that I
> have to insert the entire RTF file into a buffer, then tokenize it
> character-wise, then delete that parts of the buffer that are
> recognized as markup, applying text properties to the remaining text
> as appropriate.
> Being able to fetch characters from a stream, and deal with them
> through several layers of abstraction, and then inserting the actual
> text with properties into a buffer would be much nicer and cleaner.
While I like code to be functional, I must say that from a memory management
point of view, buffer modifications are significantly more efficient than
string manipulation.
So the other approach you suggest might indeed be cleaner, but it might
also turn out to stress Emacs's GC too hard and the performance might suck.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-05-10 18:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-05-10 5:59 request for review: Doing direct file I/O in Emacs Lisp John Wiegley
2004-05-10 6:52 ` Kim F. Storm
2004-05-10 8:27 ` David Kastrup
2004-05-10 14:21 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-05-10 15:59 ` David Kastrup
2004-05-10 16:36 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-05-10 17:00 ` David Kastrup
2004-05-10 17:22 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-05-11 9:23 ` John Wiegley
2004-05-11 10:22 ` David Kastrup
2004-05-10 9:38 ` Andreas Schwab
2004-05-10 11:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-05-10 11:23 ` Andreas Schwab
2004-05-10 15:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-05-10 14:19 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-05-10 17:46 ` Oliver Scholz
2004-05-10 18:21 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2004-05-10 22:40 ` Oliver Scholz
2004-05-11 12:22 ` Richard Stallman
2004-05-10 17:54 ` Richard Stallman
2004-05-11 9:20 ` John Wiegley
2004-05-12 19:41 ` Richard Stallman
2004-05-13 7:59 ` Kai Grossjohann
2004-05-14 9:21 ` Richard Stallman
2004-05-14 10:42 ` Kai Grossjohann
2004-05-15 8:53 ` Richard Stallman
2004-05-15 16:27 ` Kai Grossjohann
2004-05-16 13:20 ` Richard Stallman
2004-05-14 21:43 ` John Wiegley
2004-05-15 18:33 ` Richard Stallman
2004-05-15 21:36 ` John Wiegley
2004-05-15 22:13 ` David Kastrup
2004-05-16 6:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-05-16 17:46 ` David Kastrup
2004-05-17 11:04 ` Richard Stallman
2004-05-13 22:50 ` John Wiegley
2004-05-14 21:02 ` Richard Stallman
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