New subject: Why do we keep mule-coding.c around ?

Wednesday, 15 July 1998

        Andy Piper <andyp(a)parallax.co.uk&gt; writes:

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 At 09:07 15/07/98 -0400, you wrote:
> Speaking of file-coding, is there a reason the option is not listed by 
> ./configure --help? 
No.  Undoubtedly that's an oversight.

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> Is there any reason not to use it for a non-mule build? 
No one has investigated the performance implications.

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 There have been reports of crashes that I have never been able to
 reproduce and which I suspect are triggered by file-coding and not
 caused by it. 
I can't parse this statement.

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 I think steve also has some concerns about speed.  
Some benchmarking with and without it would be nice.  I think the
speed of XEmacs with Mule enabled is acceptable.

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 Ideally it should be on by default. 
I agree, though probably not for 21.0.

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