From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: automatic anchors for definition commands. Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2004 06:46:22 -0500 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <200401081724.i08HOCd08186@f7.net> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1073666001 3288 80.91.224.253 (9 Jan 2004 16:33:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2004 16:33:21 +0000 (UTC) Cc: juri@jurta.org, teirllm@dms.auburn.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 09 17:33:16 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AezZU-0002VX-00 for ; Fri, 09 Jan 2004 17:33:16 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AezZU-0001jW-00 for ; Fri, 09 Jan 2004 17:33:16 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1Af0Sw-0002vK-OY for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Fri, 09 Jan 2004 12:30:34 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1Af0SM-0002v0-AB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Jan 2004 12:29:58 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1Af0Rl-0002lj-0q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Jan 2004 12:29:52 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1Aew3q-0003Ro-Q1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Jan 2004 07:48:22 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.24) id 1Aev5q-00055d-Jd; Fri, 09 Jan 2004 06:46:22 -0500 Original-To: karl@freefriends.org (Karl Berry) In-reply-to: <200401081724.i08HOCd08186@f7.net> (karl@freefriends.org) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:19114 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:19114 A test with 2000 randomly-generated @anchors (the Elisp manual has about 1800 @def... cmds) ran fine, both for speed and space. However, 5000 anchors overflows the string space in last year's TeX Live distribution. (This year's has bigger maximums, as do a few other distributions I tried.) None of the other various TeX capacities are a problem, and speed isn't a problem either. It might be ok...but still, is this change really necessary? It is not hard to define teh anchors we actually want to use.