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| From: | Daniel Colascione |
| Subject: | Re: Breakpoint ignored. |
| Date: | Sun, 18 Oct 2009 23:35:28 -0400 |
On Oct 18, 2009, at 10:39 PM, Richard Stallman wrote:
You are probably missing the fact that Emacs tries to optimize the case of insertion of a single character. This optimization was very important in 1985. But computers are much faster now. Perhaps it would be ok to delete this optimization, or add a variable to control it and turn on the variable only on the slower computers.
Given modern branch prediction and instruction caches, I wouldn't be surprised if removing the special cases in keyboard.c for self-insert- command, forward-char, backward-char were itself an optimization.
It'd also have the nice effect of making these commands behave normally for advice, redefinition, debugging, and so on.
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