From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: redisplay system of emacs Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2010 10:32:44 +0100 Organization: Organization?!? Message-ID: <87636iei0z.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> 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> <83r5p7iout.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1264930392 14956 80.91.229.12 (31 Jan 2010 09:33:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2010 09:33:12 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jan 31 10:33:06 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 1NbWB0-0005xa-A3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 31 Jan 2010 10:33:06 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:56776 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NbWAz-0003Xm-MB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 31 Jan 2010 04:33:05 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NbWAt-0003Xg-Dh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 31 Jan 2010 04:32:59 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=58764 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NbWAs-0003XY-J8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 31 Jan 2010 04:32:58 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NbWAr-00005G-9P for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 31 Jan 2010 04:32:58 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:55230) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NbWAq-000056-VF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 31 Jan 2010 04:32:57 -0500 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NbWAp-0005t8-11 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 31 Jan 2010 10:32:55 +0100 Original-Received: from p5b2c28a6.dip.t-dialin.net ([91.44.40.166]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 31 Jan 2010 10:32:55 +0100 Original-Received: from dak by p5b2c28a6.dip.t-dialin.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 31 Jan 2010 10:32:55 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 19 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: p5b2c28a6.dip.t-dialin.net X-Face: 2FEFf>]>q>2iw=B6, xrUubRI>pR&Ml9=ao@P@i)L:\urd*t9M~y1^:+Y]'C0~{mAl`oQuAl \!3KEIp?*w`|bL5qr,H)LFO6Q=qx~iH4DN; i"; /yuIsqbLLCh/!U#X[S~(5eZ41to5f%E@'ELIi$t^ Vc\LWP@J5p^rst0+('>Er0=^1{]M9!p?&:\z]|;&=NP3AhB!B_bi^]Pfkw User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.90 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Jm+r8PL9vJ7FKuDeCEA7fUoht3Q= X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:120738 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: >> From: Óscar Fuentes >> >> Actually, some of those languages often compile applications to code >> that is faster than their C counterpart, as they are more >> optimizer-friendly. > > But switching to a language that is significantly less widespread than > C would mean significantly less potential contributors. The majority of Emacs is written in Elisp. Which is significantly less widespread than pretty much anything else. I don't think that in the last decade or so people contributed non-trivial C code to Emacs without knowledge of Elisp. -- David Kastrup