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From: Martin Buchholz <mrb@Eng.Sun.COM>
To: Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr>
Cc: XEmacs Developers <xemacs-beta@xemacs.org>
Subject: Re: XEmacs design decision: Moving to Lisp
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>>>>> "Hrv" == Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> writes:

Hrv> The problem with XEmacs is that it looks so slow to me that I have the 
Hrv> constant feeling that we are missing something obvious.  Obviously,
Hrv> you don't share that feeling, and you may well be right.

More than once I have looked at the source code and was amazed at how
much stuff XEmacs does, and does quickly.  Computers sure are fast.

I don't think anyone has tried to improve the performance of XEmacs
globally and methodically.  So there are certainly obvious things that
have been missed.

Martin

