From: Mike Kupfer <mike.kupfer@xemacs.org>
To: David Engster <deng@randomsample.de>
Cc: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: XEmacs hash table representation (was XEmacs builds failing - gnus-spec.el)
Date: Sun, 02 Jun 2013 09:22:34 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3108.1370190154@rawbw.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 02 Jun 2013 10:59:23 +0200." <87hahgzy50.fsf@randomsample.de>
David Engster wrote:
> It's not about the hash table metadata but about speed. Before Ted
> rewrote the code, the registry used to do a conversion to/from an alist,
> and I remember that writing/reading the registry this way was annoyingly
> slow, at least on slow machines in combination with big registries (mine
> has about 100.000 entries).
Ah, okay. Thanks for the clarification.
> Of course, one could still do that specially for XEmacs. I guess all it
> takes is to define a proper ':printer' slot for the registry
> object.
For the sake of interoperability, I think that it'd be better to print
the hash table for XEmacs (with print-readably set to t). I did some
(very) limited testing, and it looked like the printed representations
of hash tables are compatible between Emacs and XEmacs.
best regards,
mike
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-06-02 16:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-05-19 19:23 XEmacs builds failing - gnus-spec.el Adam Sjøgren
2013-05-19 21:45 ` Mike Kupfer
2013-05-19 21:58 ` Adam Sjøgren
2013-05-19 22:13 ` Adam Sjøgren
2013-05-19 23:30 ` Adam Sjøgren
2013-05-20 7:39 ` David Engster
2013-05-20 16:01 ` Adam Sjøgren
2013-05-20 16:36 ` Adam Sjøgren
2013-05-20 23:55 ` Katsumi Yamaoka
2013-05-21 21:01 ` Adam Sjøgren
2013-05-21 23:39 ` Katsumi Yamaoka
2013-05-22 2:58 ` Mike Kupfer
2013-05-22 5:45 ` Katsumi Yamaoka
2013-05-28 0:22 ` Mike Kupfer
2013-05-31 12:07 ` Mats Lidell
2013-05-22 20:18 ` Adam Sjøgren
2013-05-22 20:28 ` Adam Sjøgren
2013-05-22 20:36 ` David Engster
2013-05-28 0:43 ` Mike Kupfer
2013-06-01 22:04 ` XEmacs hash table representation (was XEmacs builds failing - gnus-spec.el) Mike Kupfer
2013-06-02 8:59 ` David Engster
2013-06-02 16:22 ` Mike Kupfer [this message]
2013-06-06 14:46 ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-06-06 16:06 ` Mike Kupfer
2013-05-22 3:02 ` XEmacs builds failing - gnus-spec.el Mike Kupfer
2013-05-22 20:25 ` David Engster
2013-05-28 0:25 ` Mike Kupfer
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