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: [PATCH] Unicode Lisp reader escapes Date: Thu, 04 May 2006 17:40:28 -0400 Message-ID: References: <17491.34779.959316.484740@parhasard.net> <87odyfnqcj.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> <87psiuj8at.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1146778950 22494 80.91.229.2 (4 May 2006 21:42:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 4 May 2006 21:42:30 +0000 (UTC) Cc: alkibiades@gmx.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org, storm@cua.dk Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu May 04 23:42:29 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FblaY-0008Sw-It for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 04 May 2006 23:42:22 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FblaY-0007OM-30 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 04 May 2006 17:42:22 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FblZ0-0006DF-U7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 04 May 2006 17:40:46 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FblZ0-0006CT-DL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 04 May 2006 17:40:46 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FblZ0-0006CD-8Z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 04 May 2006 17:40:46 -0400 Original-Received: from [132.204.24.67] (helo=mercure.iro.umontreal.ca) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FblYz-00035Y-JG; Thu, 04 May 2006 17:40:45 -0400 Original-Received: from hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca (hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.50]) by mercure.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B58B2CF436; Thu, 4 May 2006 17:40:44 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from asado.iro.umontreal.ca (asado.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.24.84]) by hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE532445C; Thu, 4 May 2006 17:40:28 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: by asado.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix, from userid 20848) id B6E7C716B9; Thu, 4 May 2006 17:40:28 -0400 (EDT) Original-To: Eli Zaretskii In-Reply-To: (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Thu, 04 May 2006 19:31:25 +0300") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-DIRO-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-DIRO-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-DIRO-MailScanner-SpamCheck: n'est pas un polluriel, SpamAssassin (score=-2.82, requis 5, autolearn=not spam, ALL_TRUSTED -2.82) X-DIRO-MailScanner-From: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca 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:53932 Archived-At: >> After all, it's there, it works, and as mentioned: there's no >> evidence that the decoding time of \u escapes it ever going to need >> to be fast. > ??? inside the Lisp reader, everything needs to be fast, IMO. Why? IMO the only things that need to be fast are those things whose performance has a visible impact. I see no evidence that there'll ever be a case where the speed with which we can read \u escapes will matter. Stefan