[PATCH v2] pager: migrate heavily-used extension into core

Bryan O'Sullivan bos at serpentine.com
Mon Feb 6 14:30:17 EST 2017


On Mon, Feb 6, 2017 at 9:44 AM, Augie Fackler <raf at durin42.com> wrote:

> Yes, we should definitely make pager easier to use. My own informal
> surveys of users are that even a setting in hgrc would be better than an
> extension, because there's a perception that an extension is somehow
> dangerous.
>

Not only that, but extensions are significantly more costly than built-in
code, because they have to be loaded eagerly so that they can commit all
their myriad sins during startup.
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