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Re:Remacs – A community-driven port of Emacs to Rust by musha68k on Sunday July 16, 2017 @02:31PM (#14783431)
I don't know if it's a priority but it would be cool to see rendering speed improved.
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Re:Remacs – A community-driven port of Emacs to Rust by copperx on Sunday July 16, 2017 @06:47PM (#14784502)
That's an odd expectation to have. I would think rendering speed would stay the same or increase a bit; a lot of hand optimizations are going disappear.
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Re:Remacs – A community-driven port of Emacs to Rust by FreeFull on Sunday July 16, 2017 @07:41PM (#14784692)
Considering the age of Emacs's source code, I'd imagine there would be a lot of code that used to be optimal when it was written, but isn't any more (Sort of how replacing a lot of instances of Duff's Device in Xfree86 with memcpy has sped it up).
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