Re: PLEASE COMMENT: faster elisp function calls

Andy> At 04:58 08/08/98 -0700, Ben Wing wrote: Andy> [ some neat stuff ] Yeah, that was fun to read. Whoosh! for most of it , though ;-) Andy> My biggest concern with this is that for me the slowness of Andy> XEmacs is manifest in the *loading* not the Andy> *execution*. Some of what you are talking about is Andy> front-loading the processing to load-time rather than Andy> execution time. Not really. VM (what I use) is much faster on a small folder than a large one. Why? Because certain things (threading, eg) require going over all the messages and doing the same parsing actions over and over again. I'll bet that Ben's program is a win for "load time" (in your sense) too. -- University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences Tel/fax: +1 (298) 53-5091