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From: John Turner <turner@branagh.ta52.lanl.gov>
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Subject: Re: XEmacs 20.0 announcement  (XEmacs 20.0 vs XEmacs 19.15)
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Markus Gutschke writes:
 > Steven L Baur <steve@miranova.com> writes:
 > > XEmacs 19.15 is intended to be a stable release and good for however
 > > long it takes for XEmacs v20 to stabilize.  In terms of package
 > > features 19.15 and 20.1 will be roughly equivalent.
 > > 
 > > The primary new feature in 20.0 is the MULE support, but it comes at a
 > > price -- about a 30% slowdown from 19.14.  We're working on making
 > > things faster, but it's taking time.  Currently, 19.15 and 20.0
 > > compiled with MULE (20.0-latin-1) are somewhat faster than 19.14.
              ^^^^
              without, I assume
 > > 
 > [snip]
 > > 
 > > In short, if you don't need the internationalization features and
 > > you're not interested in participating in the upgrade path of XEmacs
 > > until the new code stabilizes you should use 19.15.  If you like the
 > > idea of running the latest code, but don't want to take the
 > > performance hit of MULE, don't need to have non-Latin-1 language
 > > support, and are willing to put up with the occasional incompatibility
 > > caused by the change to the character type, then you should use
 > > XEmacs-v20-latin-1.  If you wish the whole `v20 experience' as Kyle
 > > Jones put it :-), then you should use XEmacs-v20-MULE.
 > > 
 > > Warning:  The MULE features are *highly* addictive (IMHO).
 > 
 > Maybe, these paragraphs should be added to the announcement? They give
 > a very good summary of the different design goals and should help
 > people in deciding which way they want to go.

Agreed...

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John Turner
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