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Re: Lexical binding -- do we really need it?


From: Simon Josefsson
Subject: Re: Lexical binding -- do we really need it?
Date: Sun, 09 Dec 2001 13:49:31 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.090004 (Oort Gnus v0.04) Emacs/21.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu)

Per Abrahamsen <address@hidden> writes:

> Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> I don't think it is worth while working on optimization in the Emacs
>> Lisp compiler.  It could be an unlimited time sink, drawing effort
>> away from features that benefit the user into something users will
>> hardly notice.
...
> Also, I had to give one of the most complex options
> (nnmail-split-fancy) the customize type "sexp", because the structured
> type resulted in an unusable slow UI.  And that is bound by the Lisp
> compiler.

A slow UI is very irritating for the user, and I see this from time to
time with customize so I believe it is important.  But maybe the
solution should be to separate the rendering of Emacs from the single
threaded lisp enginge -- many GUI programs separate the rendering or
view aspects from the controlling part of the program.  Perhaps
support for GTK gets you this?




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