From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Development Speed Date: Sat, 25 Dec 2021 00:16:03 -0500 Message-ID: References: <83r1a4yfpt.fsf@gnu.org> <8335mky4rl.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="35060"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: eliz@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Dec 25 06:18:30 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1n0zRt-0008yY-J7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 25 Dec 2021 06:18:29 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39792 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1n0zRs-0007ks-2b for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 25 Dec 2021 00:18:28 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:59642) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1n0zPX-0006IO-FZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Dec 2021 00:16:07 -0500 Original-Received: from [2001:470:142:3::e] (port=37504 helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1n0zPX-0002DV-5b; Sat, 25 Dec 2021 00:16:03 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=Date:References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From: mime-version; bh=dpTiJte/JDSEIPWEVZQWBs+wDuJQ/3nnTTBRBoNS1DE=; b=Qp2SVOf66i9A kwGxKMR0N8OMBqdPKehylIn7HIotSemmxXNL3a5FVGtK7XcP30DpmlaygmJYHWRECUZmsTUJ8knh6 Azg4SX9+Tu4tysKkIrd7A7B4f9l+/obYZ3Ve5V0iuLO040w/arxaB6aCTU0Gf3U3Qw941Ap69GkYo lryXouQOUJCakRftU5qQxQRmJZ1+xhJZPxf5/9tlz1P+gt+8ebOkeEs8ybSeG9+3EsRj2VZNlImls 63FmyvYQDckoyutdHBlCe+bhe4uKvWNcF9JxDp7MjPhWxTCUdtJ+QVe88C8XCZlAX+SsAfqnPIk4S z1mmHeMdBT3amuidvBMIwA==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1n0zPX-0004f7-Ba; Sat, 25 Dec 2021 00:16:03 -0500 In-Reply-To: (message from Stefan Monnier on Thu, 23 Dec 2021 14:12:44 -0500) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:283178 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. ]]] > Over the years, we've managed to reduce the use of macros (replaced by > inlinable functions) to some extent, partly thanks to improvement in > compilers, but it didn't change much to the code overall. Why are inlinable functions superior to macros in regard to ease of understanding the code? I don't see how they help. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)