Re: Shrinking the C core

[Po Lu]

"Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com> writes:

> When I first worked on Emacs code in the 1980s Lisp was already fast
> enough, and machine speeds have gone up by something like 10^3 since.
> I plain don't believe the "slower" part can be an issue on modern
> hardware, not even on tiny SBCs.

Can you promise the same, if your changes are not restricted to one or
two functions in fileio.c, but instead pervade throughout C source?

Finally, you haven't addressed the remainder of the reasons I itemized.