Re: t and nil in pure memory?

[Richard Stallman]

    No matter how many people use Emacs, the 1% speedup will still save
    only 1% of the time for each one of them.

Sure, but even if it is only a small improvement for each person, it
is still worth doing if it is easy.  Suppose that this small speedup
transforms "annoying" into "not annoying" for just one user in a
thousand each day.  That would mean that, each day, hundreds or thousands
of people are happier.