Re: emacs rendering comparisson between emacs23 and emacs26.3

[Andrea Corallo]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

>> From: Andrea Corallo <address@hidden>
>> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden
>> Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2020 18:00:25 +0000
>> 
>> >> https://elpa.gnu.org/packages/elisp-benchmarks.html ?
>> >
>> > (Any idea why this isn't in the ELPA repository?)
>> 
>> What do you mean?  I think it is (as external package tho).
>
> When I checkout the ELPA repository, I don't seem to have it.  Or did
> I miss something?

Is in the 'externals/elisp-benchmarks' branch.

The ELPA readme explain this (line 231).

>> > 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.
>> 
>> Yes is just a start.  I think everything is in Emacs core can be
>> classified as elisp implementation, I would not know where to draw a
>> line otherwise.
>
> I said "commands", and it wasn't an accident.  Those are user-visible
> units, so IMO we should start by having benchmarks for frequent
> commands.

What I'm saying is that I agree with you and I think these new
benchmarks should go in the 'elisp-benchmarks' package too.  Perhaps we
can classify these but I think is good to have one suite collecting all
benchmarks.

Andrea

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