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Subject: Re: Inserting into a buffer. 
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Date: Fri, 10 Jan 1997 07:57:37 -0600
From: Chuck Thompson <cthomp@xemacs.org>

    Ben> Keep up the good work!  I'm glad someone is looking at this
    Ben> and understanding it.  When I did the extent rewrite I had
    Ben> two goals: correctness and speed in the limiting case (lots
    Ben> of extents).  I didn't spend too much time optimizing the
    Ben> few-extent case ...

The First and Third Golden Rules of Redisplay as applied to extents...


			-Chuck

