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Subject: Re: XEmacs 20.0 announcement  (XEmacs 20.0 vs XEmacs 19.15)
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From: Markus Gutschke <gutschk@uni-muenster.de>
Date: 05 Feb 1997 01:33:49 +0100
In-Reply-To: Steven L Baur's message of 04 Feb 1997 10:52:42 -0800
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Steven L Baur <steve@miranova.com> writes:
> XEmacs 19.15 is intended to be a stable release and good for however
> long it takes for XEmacs v20 to stabilize.  In terms of package
> features 19.15 and 20.1 will be roughly equivalent.
> 
> The primary new feature in 20.0 is the MULE support, but it comes at a
> price -- about a 30% slowdown from 19.14.  We're working on making
> things faster, but it's taking time.  Currently, 19.15 and 20.0
> compiled with MULE (20.0-latin-1) are somewhat faster than 19.14.
> 
[snip]
> 
> In short, if you don't need the internationalization features and
> you're not interested in participating in the upgrade path of XEmacs
> until the new code stabilizes you should use 19.15.  If you like the
> idea of running the latest code, but don't want to take the
> performance hit of MULE, don't need to have non-Latin-1 language
> support, and are willing to put up with the occasional incompatibility
> caused by the change to the character type, then you should use
> XEmacs-v20-latin-1.  If you wish the whole `v20 experience' as Kyle
> Jones put it :-), then you should use XEmacs-v20-MULE.
> 
> Warning:  The MULE features are *highly* addictive (IMHO).


Maybe, these paragraphs should be added to the announcement? They give
a very good summary of the different design goals and should help
people in deciding which way they want to go.


Markus

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