Re: Shrinking the C core

[Arthur Miller]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Arthur Miller <arthur.miller@live.com>
>> Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2023 17:14:41 +0200
>> 
>> I personally believe that Emacs as a project would benefit of complete
>> core rewrite, as well as unifying the extension and the implementation
>> language for several reasons. Yes, it is a lot of work, but even
>> rewriting C core to adapt Emacs to modern machines is a lot of work in
>> itself, if it is even possible.
>
> Sure, this has been said here several times.
>
> Two problems with this:
>
>   . we need volunteer(s) to actually do the work, and the requirements
>     for their talents are hard to meet; and
>   . the rewrite needs to keep all or most of Lisp still working, which
>     is IMNSHO almost impossible, because our Lisp is written for the
>     current design

If you implement your current design on the another platform, it would still
work the same, no?

By the way; I am sure you will have to implement quite feelable changes in the
current design regardless. Common Lisp implementation is just food for
thought. I think it was an interesting discussion, so I am just throwing out a
different idea I haven't seen around. I don't think is impossible, but I don't
say it is easy or trivial either. :)