From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: propose adding Icicles to Emacs Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 16:03:51 -0400 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1183061060 15214 80.91.229.12 (28 Jun 2007 20:04:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 20:04:20 +0000 (UTC) Cc: juri@jurta.org, drew.adams@oracle.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 28 22:04:17 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 1I40Du-0006rZ-Sq for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 28 Jun 2007 22:04:15 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I40Du-00045R-Hu for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 28 Jun 2007 16:04:14 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I40Dl-00041c-W7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Jun 2007 16:04:06 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I40Dk-000414-A3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Jun 2007 16:04:05 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I40Dk-000410-6x for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Jun 2007 16:04:04 -0400 Original-Received: from x254-36.xtpr.umontreal.ca ([132.204.254.36] helo=ceviche.home) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1I40Di-0004D1-87; Thu, 28 Jun 2007 16:04:02 -0400 Original-Received: by ceviche.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 7C65BB4DC3; Thu, 28 Jun 2007 16:03:51 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Thu\, 28 Jun 2007 15\:25\:21 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:74016 Archived-At: > It works for me because I have rewritten all of the completion code in > Elisp, but doing it piecewise seems difficult. > Moving all the completion code into Lisp could be a good idea. > Speed is mostly not crucial there. > How much of a slowdown does this cause for try-completions? > Would this be unpleasant on slow computers? Oh, no, all-completions and try-completions are still in C. I don't think it's a good idea to move them to elisp for now. But the rest can be moved just fine: it's not speed critical. Stefan