From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs rewrite in a maintainable language Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2015 19:38:47 -0400 Message-ID: References: <561A19AB.5060001@cumego.com> <87io6dl0h0.fsf@wanadoo.es> <87lhb82qxc.fsf@gmail.com> <561BCD40.5040502@cs.ucla.edu> <22043.60385.632764.673759@turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87wpurht82.fsf@gmx.net> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1444779626 22009 80.91.229.3 (13 Oct 2015 23:40:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2015 23:40:26 +0000 (UTC) Cc: stephen@xemacs.org, eggert@cs.ucla.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Marcus Harnisch Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 14 01:40:19 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Zm9B4-00051h-Ib for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 14 Oct 2015 01:40:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39847 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zm9B3-0001Ya-NB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 Oct 2015 19:40:17 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39748) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zm99n-0001PQ-P6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Oct 2015 19:39:00 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zm99m-0008Bs-Nf for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Oct 2015 19:38:59 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:45078) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zm99b-00084G-OG; Tue, 13 Oct 2015 19:38:47 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1Zm99b-0004Dz-0b; Tue, 13 Oct 2015 19:38:47 -0400 In-reply-to: <87wpurht82.fsf@gmx.net> (message from Marcus Harnisch on Tue, 13 Oct 2015 14:02:21 +0200) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:191520 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > Seeing comments in ancient code (I think it was related to > memory allocation) that translate to something along the lines of: > “this magic number used to be value X in an even more ancient > version, chosen as the result of trial-and-error on a small number > of architectures at hand at the time of writing, and we have decided > to increase it for totally non-scientific reasons, purely based on > application of Moore's Law.” Could you show us what actually occurs in the Emacs sources, rather than this paraphrase? -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.