Re: Extra info about 109170

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On 23 Jul 2012, Stefan Monnier spake thusly:

>>> > 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.

But speaking as someone who just pruned his list of open buffers down
from a thousand-plus, anything that avoids pointless walks through a
list of that length is worthwhile too. :)

(I didn't open most of those: I guess it must be that Semantic's parsing
phase can sometimes find files to scan them and then not close them
again. I'll keep an eye out.)

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