[slime-devel] Re: Recursive edit?

[Michael Livshin]

Zach Beane <xach at xach.com> writes:

> Peter Seibel <peter at javamonkey.com> writes:
>
>> Recently SLIME has started asking me a lot if I want to enter a
>> recursive edit whenever it enters the debugger. If I say n it freezes
>> until I C-g out. If I say y it seems okay. What's that all about?
>
> When I had this problem it turned out to be a stale .elc file. Zapping
> slime.elc did the trick to fix it.

I just don't byte-compile SLIME at all (or, for that matter, any
third-party Emacs software, unless it refuses to work without
undergoing a "make install" that byte-compiles it in the process).

never had any perceivable performance problems because of this.
interpreted elisp is just Fast Enough.

just a useless thought,
--m

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