Re: Extra info about 109170

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
> Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2012 05:57:20 -0400
> 
> > I'd appreciate if someone could explain why are we excited about 8%
> > speedup, and on top of that in massive byte-compiling (something that
> > can hardly be described as a frequent operation).
> 
> 8% speedup in an actual run of Emacs is a pretty good speed up for such
> a small change.

Any speedup is good.  I just don't see how speeding up kill-buffer is
something people should be using up their time for.  But I guess we
cannot tell people which itch to scratch.