Re: Accelerating Emacs?

[Herbert Euler]

> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: Accelerating Emacs?
> Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 10:25:47 +0200
>
> Primitive operations that are used a lot and need to be fast are
> written in C, not in Lisp.

But at least the searching, syntax highlighting, tags processing,
and some other modules are written in Lisp, although it might
be byte-compiled.

> FWIW, on a reasonably fast machine, I find Emacs reasonably fast for
> day-to-day operation.

I believe this is true. But hey, lots of algorithms that are very effective
in general cases have to face some really bad situation, just like I
mentioned here. Is it possible to improve the behaviour of Emacs in
such situations?

Regards,
Guanpeng Xu

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