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Re: Accelerating Emacs?


From: Christopher C. Stacy
Subject: Re: Accelerating Emacs?
Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 01:09:36 GMT
User-agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (darwin)

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: "Herbert Euler" <herberteuler@hotmail.com>
>> Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 10:25:41 +0800
>> 
>> Emacs is undoubtly the most powerful editor because of
>> its architecture, Elisp causes lots of problems solvable within
>> Emacs. But Emacs seems to be a bit slower for the same
>> reason.
>
> Primitive operations that are used a lot and need to be
> fast are written in C, not in Lisp.

Just for the record: the above optimization strategy is an artifact 
of this Emacs-Lisp interpreter, not the Lisp language in general.



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