emacs lisp question.
it's said that for text manipulation, operation on buffer data type is
more efficient than operation on string data type.
today, i tried to test it, but the difference seems negligible ? My
tentative test seems to indicate, that after performing 120 thousand
string replacement, the string method is only 1 second slower.
It appears to me, testing these commands on a text selection with
about 122k chars that needs to be replaced, the second version is only
1 second slower? (both finishes within 2 or 3 seconds, on a 2007
midrange PC)
Any comments?