Re: Elisp native profiler

[Stephen Berman]

On Thu, 27 Sep 2012 18:12:50 -0400 Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> wrote:

>>> >   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)"?

Doesn't the underscore already conventionally identify it as a C name?
It seems at least as odd to me to see "C redisplay_internal" or
"redisplay_internal (C)" as to see simply "redisplay_internal" in a list
identified as "Lisp Backtrace".

Steve Berman