Re: Where do you want to go tomorrow?
sperber(a)informatik.uni-tuebingen.de (Michael Sperber [Mr. Preprocessor]) writes:
The immediate consequence of a new engine is going to be
performance; XEmacs runs dog-slow in many areas, and (long-term, not
ignoring the recent improvements) it has become slower faster than
machines have been getting faster.
Michael, if you take a look at XEmacs' speed in "real-life"
applications (define them as you deem appropriate), you'll see that
much of the slowness doesn't lie in elisp. For instance, we have slow
buffer filling (up to 10 times more slower than FSFmacs), and very
slow redisplay. Only this is enough to slow things down considerably.
One area where using a new lisp engine would be a huge win is the
speed of function calls, which are currently notoriously slow.
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