Re: Knowing where a function has been used (bis) [Was: Re: Optimising Elisp code]

[Barry Margolin]

In article <8636tcl05a.fsf@zoho.com>, Emanuel Berg <moasen@zoho.com> 
wrote:

> Barry Margolin wrote:
> 
> > I doubt that anyone makes decision about
> > whether to split large functions into
> > separate functions based on the overhead of
> > function calling.
> 
> This is what the Gnus people told me when
> I suggested not writing functions that are
> longer and deeper than a novel by Dostoevsky -
> they said, ~"Gnus is slow, Elisp is slow,
> making neat modules of those defuns will make
> it even slower."

Sounds like a bullshit rationalization. The real reason is probably that 
refactoring is a PITA.

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Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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