Re: Emacs rewrite in a maintainable language

[John Wiegley]

>>>>> Marcin Borkowski <address@hidden> writes:

> I'm not sure whether you were ironic or not, but assuming you were not,
> here's my answer: no, I cannot /identify/ them, but sometimes I can
> /suspect/ them. More seasoned developers should make the decision, though.
>
> Sometimes I look up some function or command, and I'm surprised it's defined
> in C and not Elisp. I could start making notes about those situations.

No, not ironic, just encouraging you. :)

> As I said, `self-insert-command' seems a natural candidate. It is probably
> almost never called from Elisp code, and I would guess it's similar for C
> code. (One exception might be keyboard macros - if yes, this might be a
> performance bottleneck.)

I wonder, since this command is called so often, what the impact would be in
this case. We'd need hard numbers to show that it doesn't affect input latency
at all.

John