Re: package badness
Andy Piper <andyp(a)parallax.co.uk> writes:
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?
Also, I don't see why lstreams would have to be slow when they do
nothing smart. For instance, why should a single (unchained) lstream
be slower than stdio?
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