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David Moore <dmoore@ucsd.edu> writes:

> Find the real bottlenecks in xemacs and attack those.  Don't be led
> astray by what the profiler says either (or at least understand how
> it lies).

I spent one afternoon around the time of 20.0 release struggling with
Quantify and one thing that looked funny was the amount of time spent
in eval doing symbol lookups.  I admit to not being familiar with use
of Quantify so I'm not sure exactly what I was looking at.
-- 
steve@miranova.com baur
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