emacs-devel
[Top][All Lists]
Advanced

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

Re: GNU is looking for Google Summer of Code Projects


From: Andrea Corallo
Subject: Re: GNU is looking for Google Summer of Code Projects
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2020 21:45:43 +0000
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.3 (gnu/linux)

Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:

>> Do we really need some dedicated low level object?
>
> I don't know what you mean, sorry.
>
>> This should be all overhead that disappears with compilation anyway.
>
> I get the impression that you were referring to the part where I talked
> about the "object description" for the runtime system.  Compilation is
> of no help here.  It's already all happening in C code.
>
> Maybe rewriting in a language with a bit more introspection might make
> an "object description" more-or-less readily available (maybe the
> Remacs work might qualify), but we'd still need to connect that with
> a GC and with pdump etc...

Ops I now understand, we are talking about 4 different problems:

1 source location going through the compilation pipeline
2 debug information into bytecode to debug
3 autogenerate GC and pdumper code from obj description
4 GC

Clear to me thanks.

  Andrea

--
address@hidden



reply via email to

[Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread]