Re: Redundant if clause in xdisp.c?

[Stefan Monnier]

> Okay to remove the condition and to collapse both branches into a
> single code fragment?

Looks like a good idea, yes.  BTW, before playing with the redisplay,
please just throw away keyboard.c's handling of self-insert-command,
forward-char and backward-char, as well as the corresponding
"direct-rendering fast-path" code.

These optimizations seem to be pointless nowadays: even when running
Emacs-23 on my cell-phone (FreeRunner) displaying on my desktop, they
don't make any noticeable difference.

I refrained from installing this change for Emacs-23.2, out of fear
bigfoot might come and bite me, but I'll definitely install it for
Emacs-24.


        Stefan