Re: package badness
At 22:05 03/12/98 -0800, Kyle Jones wrote:
I have a feeling that if we could get lstreams from between
XEmacs and the disk, I/O would be considerably faster. Loading
Lisp, loading files, saving files, everything. So I'm glum
about coding systems, since that requires the lstreams.
Do they always come between xemacs and the disk? Could we optimise the
'binary coding-system to do something sneaky? I can't see that coding
systems are going to go away given the multi-os, multi-file-format,
multi-lingual world we live in.
andy
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