Re: [PATCH] Unicode Lisp reader escapes

[Stefan Monnier]

> That's 7 lisp vars accessed from C - for decoding one character!?!

> How often does this happen?

> If it is only/primarily used for interactive use, I guess it doesn't matter.
> Otherwise, I think those vars should be declared in C, to avoid the overhead
> of interning them at run-time...

I'd vote to keep the code in elisp.  After all, it's there, it works, and as
mentioned: there's no evidence that the decoding time of \u escapes it ever
going to need to be fast.  And it'll become fast in Emacs-unicode anyway, so
it doesn't seem to be worth the trouble.


        Stefan