Re: etags completion table

[Stefan Monnier]

>> I see the first patch says that it takes 1.34s to build the obarray and
>> 0.78s to build an equivalent list of strings, so we could change the
>> code so as to keep the completion table as a pre-built list of strings
>> instead of a pre-built obarray.  It will also save us a bit of memory.
> Maybe. The difference isn't much, though, and it's a one-time thing.

Agreed.  But the current use of an obarray is just wrong: it makes the
code use more CPU and memory resources for no benefit.


        Stefan