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Re: compiled lisp file format (Re: Skipping unexec via a big .elc file)
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: compiled lisp file format (Re: Skipping unexec via a big .elc file) |
Date: |
Mon, 29 May 2017 21:53:59 +0300 |
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
> From: Paul Eggert <address@hidden>
> Date: Mon, 29 May 2017 11:03:38 -0700
>
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > My problem with this alternative
> > is that I believe maintaining it will need experts on C and C
> > compilers that we cannot rely on having available.
>
> I don't see why we'd need any more expertise in C than we already require.
> The
> Emacs core is written in C, and one must be expert in C to maintain it. The C
> code that would be output would be simple -- much simpler than what we are
> already maintaining.
This idea requires _generating_ C, something we don't currently do,
AFAIK.
As for whether it will be simple, I reserve my judgment, since no code
was presented to demonstrate the idea for some reasonably complex Lisp
data.
- compiled lisp file format (Re: Skipping unexec via a big .elc file), (continued)
- compiled lisp file format (Re: Skipping unexec via a big .elc file), Ken Raeburn, 2017/05/21
- Re: compiled lisp file format (Re: Skipping unexec via a big .elc file), Paul Eggert, 2017/05/28
- Re: compiled lisp file format (Re: Skipping unexec via a big .elc file), Ken Raeburn, 2017/05/29
- Re: compiled lisp file format (Re: Skipping unexec via a big .elc file), Paul Eggert, 2017/05/29
- Re: compiled lisp file format (Re: Skipping unexec via a big .elc file), Eli Zaretskii, 2017/05/29
- Re: compiled lisp file format (Re: Skipping unexec via a big .elc file), Paul Eggert, 2017/05/29
- Re: compiled lisp file format (Re: Skipping unexec via a big .elc file),
Eli Zaretskii <=
- Re: compiled lisp file format (Re: Skipping unexec via a big .elc file), Paul Eggert, 2017/05/29
- Re: compiled lisp file format (Re: Skipping unexec via a big .elc file), Ken Raeburn, 2017/05/30
- Re: compiled lisp file format (Re: Skipping unexec via a big .elc file), Eli Zaretskii, 2017/05/30
- Re: compiled lisp file format (Re: Skipping unexec via a big .elc file), John Wiegley, 2017/05/21
Re: Skipping unexec via a big .elc file, Philipp Stephani, 2017/05/01