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Re: FW: [External] : Re: Lisp anime video


From: Emanuel Berg
Subject: Re: FW: [External] : Re: Lisp anime video
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2021 09:30:01 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux)

tomas wrote:

> OTOH they are a very tangible hint at the sad fact that
> access times are O(n). The function's name's length is
> roughly proportional to the computational price paid by
> your users.

People say that Elisp is slow and thinking of all functions
like `abbrev--suggest-get-active-tables-including-parents'
that seems to be true indeed!

We should start shortening the syntax immediately!

> Yeah, I know "cdddddddddddddddddr" isn't "official API".

`cddddr' is the longest I think ...

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