GNU bug report logs - #75521
scratch/igc: Delete unused macro DEFVAR_LISP_NOPROX

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com>

Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2025 17:56:02 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Done: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #112 received at 75521 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Gerd Möllmann <gerd.moellmann <at> gmail.com>
To: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 75521 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, pipcet <at> protonmail.com
Subject: Re: bug#75521: scratch/igc: Delete unused macro DEFVAR_LISP_NOPROX
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2025 06:07:02 +0100

Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com> writes:

>> AFAIU, it's there to avoid protecting something that is already
>> protected.  staticvec[] is a static vector, so wasting slots there is
>> best avoided.
>
> Yes, indeed, but that seems like an optimization that is not worth
> doing.  Not these days, at any rate.
>
> It complicates the code, leading to confusion (case in point: this long
> thread where many cycles were spent discussing it), and the performance
> gains are not likely to even be measurable.

+1000
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