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From: dennis@CSNET-SH.ARPA (Dennis Rockwell)
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Subject: Re: MicroEMACS 3.7 response
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Date: Fri, 15-Aug-86 13:38:02 EDT
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Greetings!

I've been looking into causes for the slow response that I've been
seeing on our overloadad 11/750.  Doesn't it bother anybody else that
the routine execute in main.c scans the entire binding table on each
keystroke?  For most keystrokes (those that effectively self-insert),
this search will fail.

I have rewritten the relevant code and rearranged keytab so that keytab
lookups are simple array indexes.  There really is a (bindable!)
self-insert command and function.  Startup is much faster because
bind-to-key is dramatically faster.  It's perceptibly harder to type
faster than emacs can update my screen.

Because of the complete rewrite of ebind.h, these changes are probably
too big to post.  However, I'm sending them to Daniel Lawrence, in hopes
of getting them into the next release.

The drawback here is that there are now three tables that are each 256
entries long, containing the keybindings.

I have also fixed wrapword to behave better (you've probably had it mess
up on you), and fillpara has been modified similarly (fillpara now just
removes all the newlines in the paragraph and calls wordwrap).  These
changes will also be sent to Daniel Lawrence.

Dennis