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by optionalsquid 2 hours ago
Regardless of the LLM policy, I'd be hesitant to apply an optimization the impact of which can't be measured according to the author:

  > If you can provide some metrics that illustrate what the positive
  > performance improvement is, someone might volunteer to write a "clean"
  > implementation (assuming this contribution is contraband) of an NSColor
  > cache.  I haven't looked at the code should it wind up being me.

  I don't believe it's measurable, because it touches glyph rendering and
  framerates. 

 https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2026-06/msg00527.html