Re: List of all functions (recursively) called by a function?

[Elena]

On Dec 2, 11:36 am, Miles Bader <mi...@gnu.org> wrote:
> Elena <egarr...@gmail.com> writes:
> >> > Gasp! I just run the Edwin editor and it lighting fast (compared to
> >> > "emacs -Q -nw").
>
> >> Betcha "ed" is faster...
>
> > I was comparing Emacs with an similar editor.  I have also been
> > astonished by how fast Edwin shows new buffers (for instance: help
> > buffers): they are really instantaneous.
>
> There's been a huge variety of emacs-style editors which were much
> faster than GNU emacs, and a huge number of Emacs-style editors written
> in "nicer" (and faster) programming languages than elisp; very few
> survive in any real sense.

I'd bet those editors made the major mistake of not being a drop-in
replacement for Emacs.  There is too much code written in Emacs Lisp
to throw it away.