From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Thien-Thi Nguyen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Platform Dependent Code Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2008 10:23:05 +0200 Message-ID: <87zlpdop3q.fsf@ambire.localdomain> References: <20080620101747.BMG51159@expms4.cites.uiuc.edu> <8763s3elhj.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <485D5208.4030602@uiuc.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1214210285 11203 80.91.229.12 (23 Jun 2008 08:38:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 08:38:05 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "J.J. Sestrich" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jun 23 10:38:49 2008 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 4.50) id 1KAhZW-0000jZ-Ac for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 23 Jun 2008 10:38:46 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:40719 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KAhYg-0003fm-LO for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 23 Jun 2008 04:37:54 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KAhYa-0003cy-1E for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 23 Jun 2008 04:37:48 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KAhYY-0003c3-Jm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 23 Jun 2008 04:37:47 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=40619 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KAhYY-0003bl-1b for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 23 Jun 2008 04:37:46 -0400 Original-Received: from [151.61.141.75] (port=52393 helo=ambire.localdomain) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KAhYX-0000x1-DO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 23 Jun 2008 04:37:45 -0400 Original-Received: from ttn by ambire.localdomain with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1KAKqn-0001hS-TI; Sun, 22 Jun 2008 10:23:05 +0200 In-Reply-To: <485D5208.4030602@uiuc.edu> (J. J. Sestrich's message of "Sat, 21 Jun 2008 14:10:00 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. 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:99760 Archived-At: () "J.J. Sestrich" () Sat, 21 Jun 2008 14:10:00 -0500 Does anyone have any insight on these ideas: Size of code to be re-written? Difficulty of code that has to be re-done? I think both these ideas do not point in the right direction. In serious jest i tell you: - 42 MB, excruciatingly - 4.2 MB, not particularly - 0.42 MB, trivially - yes, yes - yes - no - oh no, not ANOTHER javascript reimpl of emacs! and now we are no further along than before. How do you measure the measures of others? thi