Re: MPS experiment successful

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> From: Gerd Möllmann <gerd.moellmann@gmail.com>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2024 16:30:42 +0200
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> >> That's all. There is nothing more. And I'm currently undecided how to
> >> proceed with this.
> >
> > The next step would be to push a feature branch into the Emacs Git
> > repository and let people try the branch on the other supported
> > platforms.  If the code is not yet mature enough for that, please
> > suggest how to get from here to there.
> 
> I think technically it could be done, but there are some things that
> would need to be done. From the top of my head:
> 
> - CL packages vs. obarrays (I do have packages but no obarrays)
> - Handling of pure space
> - Handling the new JSON stuff, which I don't have in my branch, I think.
> - ...

The packages code will need to be moved aside, yes.  But for the rest,
why shouldn't a simple merge do the job?  They seem to be orthogonal,
by and large.

What is the issue with handling pure space?

> Will increase memory usage in its current state, part of which could be
> optimized.

How much larger is the memory footprint?

> Some configurations/platform might not be possible to support.

Which ones?