Re: Extra info about 109170

[Stefan Monnier]

>> > I'd appreciate if someone could explain why are we excited about 8%
>> > speedup, and on top of that in massive byte-compiling (something that
>> > can hardly be described as a frequent operation).
>> 8% speedup in an actual run of Emacs is a pretty good speed up for such
>> a small change.
> Any speedup is good.  I just don't see how speeding up kill-buffer is
> something people should be using up their time for.

The purpose was not to speed up kill-buffer but byte-compilation, AFAICT.


        Stefan