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Re: Development Speed


From: Philip Kaludercic
Subject: Re: Development Speed
Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2021 08:16:56 +0000

xenodasein--- via "Emacs development discussions." <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
writes:

> Quoting: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2021-12/msg01900.html
> From: Po Lu
> Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2021 08:31:18 +0800
>
>> and why should we use C17?  What advantages does it hold?
>
> This is a legitimate question we can assess.
> Features like restricted pointers could improve performance?
> But I think the better question is what is the excuse for striving not to
> keep up with the latest language standard? (Assuming someone wants to work on
> it.)

I think the main issue is that by raising the language standard, you
break compatibility with systems that do not provide the compiler yet.

-- 
        Philip Kaludercic



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