Re: Release plans

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

Stefan Monnier wrote:
>>    it would be very nice, performance-wise and semantics-wise, to
>>    be able to address the database from lisp directly rather than
>>    going through the serialization bottleneck to a sub-process.
> 
>> I think you've got it backwards; in any system involving Emacs (of
>> the current design), the serialization bottleneck is Emacs `eval'.
> 
> I'm not sure I understand what you mean.  In the case of something like
> Semantic, if parsing in Elisp is too expensive or if you want to use
> some existing C code to do the parsing, the bottleneck you'll have to
> handle is that the external process can't directly access the buffer's
> text, and it can be very costly to pass that text to the subprocess and
> then process the returned value (which may look like a list of text
> properties to add to various parts of the text).
> 
> A DLL could be significantly more efficient.  The difference can be as
> large as "on-the-fly" vs "batch".


It looks to me like the buffer string routines Thomas is working on
could perhaps make that easier to implement (in the DLL case of course).
But I guess you have thought much more about that, Thomas?