Re: Did `inline' used to do something else?

[Emanuel Berg]

Eric Abrahamsen wrote:

>> By the way it is interesting that Gnus is
>> what brought this issue up to date because
>> Gnus (or Emacs Lisp) has speed issues and
>> one way in Gnus to counteract it is the
>> presence of very long functions.
>
> My observation so far is that Gnus has lots
> of this sort of micro-optimization, but that
> much of the slowness comes from how the
> larger routines and data structures work.
> In fairness, we have a lot of tools now that
> weren't present when Gnus was written.

With respect to data structures? What tools
are those?

I always thought data structures
(e.g., balanced search trees) were either
pre-computers (the Turing era) or at the very
latest 50s and 60s stuff.

But maybe I was wrong, or maybe you meant
something else?

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