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Richard Stallman <rms@santafe.edu> writes:

> I can easily increase this cache size--the question is,
> how far should I increase it?

Make it settible from lisp? A quick glance at the code [1] gives the
impression that it is accessed by pointer chasing anyway so you would
use not (much) speed by the compiler not able to make static array
optimisations. 

Jan

[1] of XEmacs, which is all I have availible here at the moment,
sorry.