Re: Emacs design and architecture (was: Shrinking the C core)

[Richard Stallman]

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  > > If we add a more powerful method of attaching non-text data to
  > > buffers, the design phase should include specifying precisely how they
  > > would behave when copying text between buffers and strings.

  >   All this
  > because buffer text is a single unstructured string of bytes.  If we
  > want to speed up redisplay in such situations, we must get some help
  > from the buffer text itself, so as not to have to redo all those
  > layout calculations each and every time we need to convert buffer
  > positions to screen coordinates or back.

I think we are looking at the same sort of idea
from two different angles.



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