Further VC tuning is blocked

[Eric S. Raymond]

I think I've reached the limit of what I can do to speed-tune VC, 
pending one of the following developments:

1. Profiling discloses another hotspot that I can micro-optimize away.

2. We drop Dired and go with something like ewoc.

While I'm willing to do the latter, I'm fairly neutral on the design issue.
I still want to hear RMS's arguments for retaiming Dired.
-- 
                <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a>

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