Re: request for review: Doing direct file I/O in Emacs Lisp

[Oliver Scholz]

Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:

[...]
> While I like code to be functional, I must say that from a memory management
> point of view, buffer modifications are significantly more efficient than
> string manipulation.
> So the other approach you suggest might indeed be cleaner, but it might
> also turn out to stress Emacs's GC too hard and the performance might suck.
[...]

Ah, o.k. Too bad. Thank you for the clarification, anyways.

    Oliver
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