Re: Emacs Lisp's future

[David Kastrup]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

> You are wrong here.  Emacs 23 added many CPU-intensive features, like
> visual-line-mode.  Emacs 24 added bidirectional display, which makes
> redisplay need roughly twice as much juice as Emacs 23 needed.  And
> these are only two examples that pop up in my head after a 3-sec
> thought; I'm sure there are more.
>
> So it's not like we use up every additional CPU cycle the chips are
> giving us, but we are certainly using significantly more than we did
> 10 years ago.

One of the most costly changes was post 20.2 (?) when buffer and string
positions became expressed as character offsets rather than byte
offsets.

-- 
David Kastrup