Re: Shrinking the C core

[Ihor Radchenko]

Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com> writes:

> Instead of denigrating the C language, Emacs's C core, and so many other
> components critical to Emacs that have been subject to unjustified
> invective in recent times, why not direct your attention to a more
> productive task, such as identifying the complex interdependencies
> between different pieces of Emacs's global state to establish a detailed
> plan for their interlocking?  For this task, the most important tool is
> a control-flow visualizer such as cflow, and an ample supply of paper.

And we tried to dig into this question in
https://yhetil.org/emacs-devel/871qhnr4ty.fsf@localhost/
At least, the task does not look impossible.

-- 
Ihor Radchenko // yantar92,
Org mode contributor,
Learn more about Org mode at <https://orgmode.org/>.
Support Org development at <https://liberapay.com/org-mode>,
or support my work at <https://liberapay.com/yantar92>