"Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull(a)sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> writes:
Jan claimed (if I read it right) that specifiers are inefficient;
maybe they are.
Not at the device tag level I think. I do remember there being a
discussion about the general inefficiency of specifiers when custom
was first ported to XEmacs. The problem comes when you try extend it
and you have to preserve the current efficiency.
Jan