Re: Elisp native profiler

[Stefan Monnier]

>> >   Lisp Backtrace:
>> >   "Automatic Redisplay" (0x1649638)
>> > What is this "Automatic Redisplay" about?
>> It's an entry for the function redisplay_internal.
> Why not write redisplay_internal, then?

Because the names that appear there are supposed to be Elisp names, not
C names.  Maybe we could use a convention like "C redisplay_internal"
or "redisplay_internal (C)"?

> And, btw, redisplay_internal is not always called "automatically", it
> is sometimes triggered by very specific events.

To the Elisp programmer, it's largely automatic in general.


        Stefan