Re: emacs rendering comparisson between emacs23 and emacs26.3

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Andrea Corallo <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden
> Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2020 16:05:08 +0000
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > When we know a new feature causes significant slowdown, we either fix
> > it, or provide a way to disable or work around it.  The problem is, we
> > don't always know there's slowdown, as it frequently happens only in
> > specific rare use cases.  (John said some time ago we should have a
> > benchmarking test suite, but I don't think anyone's working on it.)
> 
> https://elpa.gnu.org/packages/elisp-benchmarks.html ?

(Any idea why this isn't in the ELPA repository?)

This might be a beginning, but the issue at hand is not to benchmark
Emacs Lisp programs, it is to benchmark Emacs commands, so we could
make sure we don't have speed regressions.