GNU bug report logs - #70686
30.0.50; cl--position is slow

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Message #22 received at 70686-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 70686-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org, No Wayman <iarchivedmywholelife <at> gmail.com>
Subject: Re: bug#70686: 30.0.50; cl--position is slow
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2025 18:37:39 -0800

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

>> From: No Wayman <iarchivedmywholelife <at> gmail.com>
>> Cc: 70686 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
>> Date: Wed, 01 May 2024 08:20:56 -0400
>>
>> It would be preferable to improve the performance of that
>> function, as it would benefit anyone using it.
>
> Sure, if you have a patch to improve performance, please share it.
>
> But otherwise asking for better performance here is not very useful,
> because we'd like to improve performance of everything in Emacs.  IOW,
> the need and the motivation exist, but without some practical
> suggestion how to improve there's no way to resolve such issues raised
> here.
>
> So:
>
>> Slow performance, especially in a widely used library like cl-lib,
>> is a bug.
>> Where would you prefer such observations be reported?
>
> I think only cases of abysmally inadequate and terribly slow
> performance should be reported as bugs, when there's no practical
> suggestion for improving the performance.
>
>> Are you confident the performance trade-off is due to dispatching
>> on sequence types in this case?
>> Do you think the performance could be improved without sacrificing
>> that flexibility?
>> I'll dig into it more when I have time, but I'm starting a
>> discussion here in case someone has already made an attempt or
>> knows the answers to those questions.
>
> Discussions generally don't belong here.  A better place for that is
> emacs-devel, if only because many more people read it.
>
> Thanks.

I'd tend to agree.  It's hard to do anything actionable with this bug
report.  Work on improving the performance of cl--position and
everything else is of course more than welcome.

I'm therefore closing this bug report.

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