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Dropping EIEIO from xref (for performance)

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Message #23 received at 50777 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
Cc: Mattias Engdegård <mattiase <at> acm.org>,
 50777 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>,
 Daniel Martín <mardani29 <at> yahoo.es>
Subject: Re: bug#50777: Dropping EIEIO from xref (for performance)
Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2021 03:42:52 +0200

Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru> writes:

> The ones that do can be updated to rely on the recommended public
> interface: the xref-make-* constructors and the generic functions to
> access the data. This will keep the code compatible with both new and
> previous versions of Xref.
>
> I'd like to push it soon, so users of Emacs 28 can enjoy the speedup.
>
> What do people think?

Speedups would be nice, but I think this sounds like a very big change
to make to such a central system (that I think many third-party packages
rely on) at this point, so I'm leaning towards it being in Emacs 29
instead.  

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