Re: address@hidden: Speed of all-completions]

[Andreas Schwab]

David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:

> Andreas Schwab <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> This is due to this change:
>> 
>>      (Ftry_completion, Fall_completions, Ftest_completion): Bind
>>      case-fold-search to the value of completion-ignore-case when
>>      checking completion-regexp-list.
>> 
>> I've checked in a fix that avoids the overhead of specbind when
>> completion-regexp-list is empty.
>
> At the cost of being more expensive when it isn't.

Why is it more expensive?  The check for CONSP (completion-regexp-list)
has to be done anyway, and can be CSE'd by the compiler.

Andreas.

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