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From: Skip Montanaro <skip@calendar.com>
To: Martin Buchholz <mrb@Eng.Sun.COM>
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Subject: free speed-up
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>>>>> "Martin" == Martin Buchholz <mrb@Eng.Sun.COM> writes:

    Martin> I think this is false economy.  If the string is huge, then that temp
    Martin> buffer is going to bloat XEmacs' memory size.
			       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
I thought anything added to a very large number was still very large... ;-)

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