From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: redisplay system of emacs Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2010 17:39:22 +0200 Message-ID: <83r5p7iout.fsf@gnu.org> References: <27349166.post@talk.nabble.com> <83bpge50k5.fsf@gnu.org> <87vdem8gly.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <87k4v1xm4l.fsf@gmail.com> <83sk9prvnd.fsf@gnu.org> <87k4v1vz5f.fsf@gmail.com> <87hbq4d9jf.fsf@telefonica.net> <87d40rdaci.fsf@telefonica.net> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1264865974 23567 80.91.229.12 (30 Jan 2010 15:39:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2010 15:39:34 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: =?utf-8?Q?=C3=93scar_Fuentes?= Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jan 30 16:39:31 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NbFQ2-0007Qq-Up for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 30 Jan 2010 16:39:31 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:35356 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NbFQ2-0007ed-9l for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 30 Jan 2010 10:39:30 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NbFPw-0007e6-4B for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Jan 2010 10:39:24 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=40206 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NbFPv-0007dv-K6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Jan 2010 10:39:23 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NbFPu-0000mK-Go for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Jan 2010 10:39:23 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout21.012.net.il ([80.179.55.169]:56378) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NbFPu-0000m0-5B for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Jan 2010 10:39:22 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout21.012.net.il by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0KX200K00GT6OQ00@a-mtaout21.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Jan 2010 17:39:21 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.127.180.161]) by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0KX200GV9GTJGJD0@a-mtaout21.012.net.il>; Sat, 30 Jan 2010 17:39:21 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <87d40rdaci.fsf@telefonica.net> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:120704 Archived-At: > From: =C3=93scar Fuentes > Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2010 13:51:41 +0100 >=20 > Nowadays, thanks to projects like LLVM, it is easy to roll an > industrial-grade optimizing compiler if the language runtime > requirements are not too far from C. It is straightforward to desig= n a > language that equals C in speed of execution and that is way more > expressive. >=20 > Actually, some of those languages often compile applications to cod= e > that is faster than their C counterpart, as they are more > optimizer-friendly. But switching to a language that is significantly less widespread tha= n C would mean significantly less potential contributors. We could learn from Texinfo experience: the next release replaces the venerable makeinfo implementation in C with a modified texi2html, which is written in Perl. I suspect that, once that happens, the onl= y one who will hack the translator will be its author and no one else. We shall see.