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From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: "Rüdiger Sonderfeld" <ruediger@c-plusplus.de>,
	"Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen" <larsi@gnus.org>,
	emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: FFI (was: Mysterious gzipped images)
Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2013 09:50:37 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d2ppkntu.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvpptp2ou0.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>

Stefan Monnier writes:

 > Of course, the better way would be to add FFI support first.

Not really.  FFI guarantees that you can crash Emacs (if not the whole
system) from Lisp.

FFI has its advantages, of course, but it's hard to see how it can be
considered "better" except in very specific use cases.  "Useful
option" is about as far as I would be willing to go.




      reply	other threads:[~2013-08-08  0:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-08-06 22:20 Mysterious gzipped images Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2013-08-06 22:30 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2013-08-06 23:05   ` Andreas Schwab
2013-08-06 23:38     ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2013-08-07  1:08       ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2013-08-07  8:51         ` Julien Danjou
2013-08-07 14:35         ` Stefan Monnier
2013-08-07 16:47           ` chad
2013-08-08 10:35           ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2013-08-08 10:57             ` Andreas Schwab
2013-08-11 19:44               ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2013-08-08 13:22             ` Paul Eggert
2013-08-08 14:06               ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2013-08-08 15:31                 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2013-08-11 22:05                   ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2013-08-08 13:24             ` Romain Francoise
2013-08-08 13:28               ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2013-08-08 13:36                 ` Christopher Schmidt
2013-08-08 13:55                   ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2013-08-08 14:06                     ` Christopher Schmidt
2013-08-08 14:09                       ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2013-08-08 15:43                 ` Romain Francoise
2013-08-08 15:52                   ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2013-08-11 19:51                   ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2013-08-08 14:47             ` Stefan Monnier
2013-08-11 19:47               ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2013-08-12  0:54                 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-08-12 14:05                   ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2013-08-12 15:09                     ` Stefan Monnier
2013-08-12 15:20                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-08-12 16:27                       ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2013-08-12 16:42                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-08-12 12:13                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-08-12 12:21                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-08-12 13:06                     ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2013-08-12 13:29                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-08-13 23:40                       ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2013-08-14 13:09                         ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2013-08-14 15:12                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-08-17 15:01                             ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2013-08-17 15:27                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-08-17 17:04                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-08-18 17:06                                   ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2013-08-07 18:25         ` Rüdiger Sonderfeld
2013-08-07 21:06           ` FFI (was: Mysterious gzipped images) Stefan Monnier
2013-08-08  0:50             ` Stephen J. Turnbull [this message]

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