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Hermes SMTP Server) with ESMTPA ID 67373eac2163a5ca9eb02146989abf1a; Wed, 09 Aug 2023 23:56:40 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: (Eric S. Raymond's message of "Wed, 9 Aug 2023 11:51:44 -0400") X-Mailer: WebService/1.1.21695 mail.backend.jedi.jws.acl:role.jedi.acl.token.atz.jws.hermes.yahoo Received-SPF: pass client-ip=66.163.184.201; envelope-from=luangruo@yahoo.com; helo=sonic301-32.consmr.mail.ne1.yahoo.com X-Spam_score_int: -20 X-Spam_score: -2.1 X-Spam_bar: -- X-Spam_report: (-2.1 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_EF=-0.1, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE=-0.0001, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H2=-0.001, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:308494 Archived-At: "Eric S. Raymond" writes: > When I first worked on Emacs code in the 1980s Lisp was already fast > enough, and machine speeds have gone up by something like 10^3 since. > I plain don't believe the "slower" part can be an issue on modern > hardware, not even on tiny SBCs. Can you promise the same, if your changes are not restricted to one or two functions in fileio.c, but instead pervade throughout C source? Finally, you haven't addressed the remainder of the reasons I itemized.