Subject: Re: bug#28625: [PROPOSED] Speed up (format "%s" STRING) and the like

From: Noam Postavsky <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2017 21:47:29 -0400

Paul Eggert <[email-masked]> writes:

> Also, the change simplifies the Emacs source code, and that's a win
> even if the performance gain is small.

I kind of rolled my eyes a bit when I saw the subject, as optimizing
`format' hardly seems like a priority; but IMO, the patch is indeed
worthwhile for the code simplication.