From: Gemini Lasswell <gazally@runbox.com>
To: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
Cc: cpitclaudel@gmail.com, Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>,
michael_heerdegen@web.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org,
monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: scratch/accurate-warning-pos: Solid progress: the branch now bootstraps.
Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2018 16:26:58 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87o9a6gkh9.fsf@runbox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181130185503.GA16256@ACM> (Alan Mackenzie's message of "Fri, 30 Nov 2018 18:55:03 +0000")
Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> writes:
> Hello, Paul.
>
> On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 09:50:09 -0800, Paul Eggert wrote:
>> On 11/29/18 2:05 PM, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
>> > Symbols-with-pos exists, works, and works well. Conses-with-pos
>> > doesn't exist, hence doesn't work. I doubt it can work. Can you
>> > create it?
>
>> I think I could, with time.
>
> But you're not going to?
>
>> I hope someone else will do it, though, as the problem does not seem
>> that urgent. I would suggest that whoever does it, looks into Stefan's
>> ideas in this area, e.g.,
>> <https://lists.gnu.org/r/emacs-devel/2018-11/msg00532.html>.
>
> Nobody else is going to do it, and why should they? I've already
> explained to you why the approach you suggest won't work, you being
> about the only person insisting that it will. If you actually tried it,
> as I have, you'd soon find out that I'm right, and why.
Saying that nobody will do it is a bit strong. I like Stefan's ideas,
understand edebug specs, and would like to know more about how the byte
compiler works. This seems like a perfect project for that. But it
wouldn't happen immediately, as I'd like to get my half-finished
benchmarking tool to a state where it's usable by other people, before I
start any other projects.
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Thread overview: 110+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-11-17 12:45 scratch/accurate-warning-pos: First tentative successes Alan Mackenzie
2018-11-17 13:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-11-23 13:09 ` scratch/accurate-warning-pos: Solid progress: the branch now bootstraps Alan Mackenzie
2018-11-25 11:26 ` Charles A. Roelli
2018-11-25 14:31 ` Alan Mackenzie
2018-11-25 15:12 ` Andreas Schwab
2018-11-25 15:42 ` Alan Mackenzie
2018-11-25 16:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-11-25 17:59 ` Alan Mackenzie
2018-11-25 18:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-11-25 18:23 ` Alan Mackenzie
2018-11-25 19:36 ` Alan Mackenzie
2018-11-25 16:22 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-11-25 17:35 ` Alan Mackenzie
2018-11-25 18:22 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-11-25 19:54 ` Alan Mackenzie
2018-11-25 20:08 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-11-26 9:52 ` Alan Mackenzie
2018-11-26 10:16 ` Alan Mackenzie
2018-11-25 16:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-11-25 17:27 ` Andreas Schwab
2018-11-25 17:31 ` Alan Mackenzie
2018-11-25 17:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-11-25 18:08 ` Alan Mackenzie
2018-11-25 18:45 ` Paul Eggert
2018-11-25 19:30 ` Alan Mackenzie
2018-11-25 20:12 ` Paul Eggert
2018-11-25 21:29 ` Alan Mackenzie
2018-11-26 1:41 ` Paul Eggert
2018-11-26 3:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-11-26 17:43 ` Paul Eggert
2018-11-26 18:43 ` Alan Mackenzie
2018-11-26 19:18 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2018-11-26 19:42 ` Alan Mackenzie
2018-11-27 1:07 ` Gemini Lasswell
2018-11-27 1:45 ` Alan Mackenzie
2018-11-27 6:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-11-27 2:48 ` Paul Eggert
2018-11-27 7:43 ` Alan Mackenzie
2018-11-27 20:27 ` Paul Eggert
2018-11-27 21:15 ` Alan Mackenzie
2018-11-27 21:37 ` Paul Eggert
2018-11-27 21:53 ` Alan Mackenzie
2018-11-28 1:11 ` Paul Eggert
2018-11-28 12:04 ` Alan Mackenzie
2018-11-29 21:28 ` Paul Eggert
2018-11-29 22:05 ` Alan Mackenzie
2018-11-30 17:50 ` Paul Eggert
2018-11-30 18:55 ` Alan Mackenzie
2018-11-30 20:14 ` Paul Eggert
2018-11-30 22:02 ` Alan Mackenzie
2018-11-30 23:46 ` Paul Eggert
2018-12-01 7:35 ` martin rudalics
2018-12-01 8:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-12-01 11:08 ` Alan Mackenzie
2018-12-01 11:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-12-01 12:47 ` Alan Mackenzie
2018-12-01 14:09 ` martin rudalics
2018-12-01 14:30 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-12-01 16:30 ` martin rudalics
2018-12-01 19:56 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-12-01 14:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-12-01 16:31 ` martin rudalics
2018-12-01 16:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-12-01 19:04 ` martin rudalics
2018-12-01 19:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-12-01 17:21 ` Alan Mackenzie
2018-12-01 17:44 ` Michael Heerdegen
2018-12-01 18:58 ` Alan Mackenzie
2018-12-01 20:26 ` Alan Mackenzie
2018-12-01 17:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-12-01 21:00 ` Paul Eggert
2018-12-01 17:50 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2018-12-01 18:26 ` Yuri Khan
2018-12-01 19:15 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2018-12-01 21:26 ` Paul Eggert
2018-12-02 6:48 ` Yuri Khan
2018-12-02 18:39 ` Gemini Lasswell
2018-12-03 2:28 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-12-01 19:04 ` martin rudalics
2018-12-02 22:53 ` Dmitry Gutov
2018-12-01 0:26 ` Gemini Lasswell [this message]
2018-12-01 11:48 ` Alan Mackenzie
2018-11-27 22:09 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-11-28 2:18 ` Paul Eggert
2018-11-28 2:43 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-11-28 5:13 ` Paul Eggert
2018-11-28 6:03 ` Gemini Lasswell
2018-11-28 5:39 ` Gemini Lasswell
2018-11-28 13:06 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-11-28 6:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-11-28 22:50 ` Paul Eggert
2018-11-29 7:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-11-29 10:54 ` Alan Mackenzie
2018-11-29 11:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-11-29 11:37 ` Alan Mackenzie
2018-11-29 21:12 ` Paul Eggert
2018-11-29 21:28 ` Alan Mackenzie
2018-11-28 0:53 ` Gemini Lasswell
2018-11-26 20:04 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-11-27 2:51 ` Paul Eggert
2018-11-26 9:48 ` Alan Mackenzie
2018-11-26 18:27 ` Paul Eggert
2018-11-25 18:48 ` Gemini Lasswell
2018-11-25 20:02 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-11-26 12:39 ` Alan Mackenzie
2018-11-26 16:14 ` Gemini Lasswell
2018-11-26 17:06 ` Alan Mackenzie
2018-11-26 17:24 ` Alan Mackenzie
2018-11-29 12:26 ` scratch/accurate-warning-pos: Some real world timings Alan Mackenzie
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