From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: string> missing? Date: Fri, 05 Jun 2015 13:56:14 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87oakxkvqw.fsf@petton.fr> <83zj4grgkc.fsf@gnu.org> <87sia8n8b5.fsf@petton.fr> <87zj4gu821.fsf@gnu.org> <83sia8rdkm.fsf@gnu.org> <83pp5crbfd.fsf@gnu.org> <837frjqzpk.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1433527012 4905 80.91.229.3 (5 Jun 2015 17:56:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2015 17:56:52 +0000 (UTC) Cc: nicolas@petton.fr, tsdh@gnu.org, nandryshak@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jun 05 19:56:38 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Z0vr9-0000f9-7g for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 05 Jun 2015 19:56:35 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48963 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z0vr3-0004Oo-QG for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 05 Jun 2015 13:56:29 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60977) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z0vqr-0004Of-6D for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Jun 2015 13:56:18 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z0vqq-000247-9l for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Jun 2015 13:56:17 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:44244) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z0vqq-00023w-6u for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Jun 2015 13:56:16 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1Z0vqo-0002iV-9f; Fri, 05 Jun 2015 13:56:14 -0400 In-reply-to: <837frjqzpk.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Thu, 04 Jun 2015 18:07:35 +0300) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:187049 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > You say that this goal no longer exists, but the practice of Emacs > maintenance tells me otherwise. We are still making optimization > changes, some of them quite deep and pervasive ones, for very little > benefits, like a few percents decrease in memory footprint or in CPU > usage, even under the most favorable conditions. Adding string> might be 200 bytes. Saving 200 bytes is insignificant. A few percent decrease could be a megabyte. That big a space saving is still worth something. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.