RE: Can we make set_point_both less expensive?

[Drew Adams]

> There are a lot of features in Emacs that might make little sense to
> me or you or someone else.  Removing features just because of that, or
> because we think they don't have use cases that are valid in our eyes,
> is not a practice I'd recommend.  At least, we never did that in
> Emacs, AFAIR.  Features might be deprecated because they cause real
> damage to Emacs development, but even then we do that very cautiously
> and slowly.
> 
> My $0.02, anyway.

Please add my 2c as well.

(Independent of any consideration of this particular feature.)