Re: Extra info about 109170

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>
> Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2012 04:55:14 -0400
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
> 
> >> > 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.
> 
> The purpose was not to speed up kill-buffer but byte-compilation, AFAICT.

I was talking about the result, not the purpose.