Subject: Re: bug#13949: 24.4.1; `fill-paragraph' should not always put the buffer as modified

From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2016 17:50:58 +0200

Dmitry Gutov <[email-masked]> writes:

> And yet, why would we allow such possibility? String comparison is
> plenty fast already.

Comparison is fast, but making a copy of a buffer (or its contents)
isn't.  (If the buffer is large, that is.)  If you've loaded a 2GB file
and hit `M-q' on a line, it would be rather awkward if that made Emacs
allocate an additional 2GB of data.

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