GNU bug report logs - #57079
29.0.50; Performance of seq-uniq is not very good

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Message #43 received at 57079 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 57079 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, stefan <at> marxist.se
Subject: Re: bug#57079: 29.0.50; Performance of seq-uniq is not very good
Date: Tue, 09 Aug 2022 20:03:46 +0200

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

> My point is that it will never be as fast as the implementations
> Stefan deleted, replacing them with seq-uniq.  My point is that those
> changes just made several places in Emacs slower, even after your
> speedup, for no good reason.  Those deleted functions, if they needed
> to be deleted, should have been replaced by a different
> implementation, which doesn't support TESTFN and is therefore faster,
> as the original implementations, now deleted, were.

The performance of the new seq-uniq (called with no TESTFN) is identical
to the old gnus-delete-duplicates -- it's the same code.

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