Re: Proposal: immediate strings

[Stefan Monnier]

> YMMV since it depends on what happens. For a long byte-compile runs,
> ~0.05% - 0.1% of live strings may have text properties. On the other
> side, some editing operations may cause this percentage to grow; for
> example, (indent-region) in C mode buffers for a huge regions (a size
> of xdisp.c :-) gives ~15% of live strings with properties, and almost
> all of them are small (less than 16 bytes).

Thanks.  I think we can keep the `intervals' field for now.

> BTW, is it possible to attach a properties to a string used to represent
> a symbol name? If not, we can drop some bits from mark_object at the
> cost of having some precautions in Fmake_symbol.

Currently, `symbol-name' returns the actual string passed to
make-symbol/intern, so those can have text properties and you can even
change those properties later on.  Hell, you can even get weird results
with things like (aset (symbol-name <yoursymbol>) ?a).


        Stefan