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Re: [PATCH] Unicode Lisp reader escapes
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: [PATCH] Unicode Lisp reader escapes |
Date: |
Fri, 05 May 2006 13:25:23 +0300 |
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden
> From: Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>
> Date: Thu, 04 May 2006 17:40:28 -0400
>
> >> After all, it's there, it works, and as mentioned: there's no
> >> evidence that the decoding time of \u escapes it ever going to need
> >> to be fast.
>
> > ??? inside the Lisp reader, everything needs to be fast, IMO.
>
> Why?
Because the Lisp reader is the backbone of the Lisp interpreter.
> IMO the only things that need to be fast are those things whose
> performance has a visible impact. I see no evidence that there'll ever be
> a case where the speed with which we can read \u escapes will matter.
You don't need to see an evidence of a collapsing bridge to know that
it must be several times stronger than any imaginable load that could
ever be put on it.
In other words, not everything is empirical; there's a thing called
``good engineering practice.''
Sorry for being overly didactic, I'm sure you know all that. I'm just
amazed that such a fundamental issue needs evidence.
- Re: [PATCH] Unicode Lisp reader escapes, (continued)
- Re: [PATCH] Unicode Lisp reader escapes, Kenichi Handa, 2006/05/03
- Re: [PATCH] Unicode Lisp reader escapes, Oliver Scholz, 2006/05/04
- Re: [PATCH] Unicode Lisp reader escapes, Kim F. Storm, 2006/05/04
- Re: [PATCH] Unicode Lisp reader escapes, Stefan Monnier, 2006/05/04
- Re: [PATCH] Unicode Lisp reader escapes, Kim F. Storm, 2006/05/04
- Re: [PATCH] Unicode Lisp reader escapes, Eli Zaretskii, 2006/05/04
- Re: [PATCH] Unicode Lisp reader escapes, Stefan Monnier, 2006/05/04
- Re: [PATCH] Unicode Lisp reader escapes,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- Re: [PATCH] Unicode Lisp reader escapes, Oliver Scholz, 2006/05/05
- Re: [PATCH] Unicode Lisp reader escapes, Stuart D. Herring, 2006/05/05
- Re: [PATCH] Unicode Lisp reader escapes, Stefan Monnier, 2006/05/05
- Re: [PATCH] Unicode Lisp reader escapes, Oliver Scholz, 2006/05/05
- Re: [PATCH] Unicode Lisp reader escapes, Oliver Scholz, 2006/05/04
- Re: [PATCH] Unicode Lisp reader escapes, Eli Zaretskii, 2006/05/04
- Re: [PATCH] Unicode Lisp reader escapes, Aidan Kehoe, 2006/05/04
- Re: [PATCH] Unicode Lisp reader escapes, Oliver Scholz, 2006/05/05
- Re: [PATCH] Unicode Lisp reader escapes, Oliver Scholz, 2006/05/05
- Re: [PATCH] Unicode Lisp reader escapes, Aidan Kehoe, 2006/05/05