From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Preview: portable dumper Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2016 04:18:04 -0500 Message-ID: References: <047a67ec-9e29-7e4e-0fb0-24c3e59b5886@dancol.org> <83zikjxt1j.fsf@gnu.org> <727ccd66-3bc3-2a41-7d1d-ef6dae9f0d1e@dancol.org> <7A914757-B1A4-4EEE-9DF0-68EFDDA9A5DB@autodesk.com> <83k2bmxju3.fsf@gnu.org> <837f7mrvq8.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1480584043 27249 195.159.176.226 (1 Dec 2016 09:20:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2016 09:20:43 +0000 (UTC) Cc: jwiegley@gmail.com, eliz@gnu.org, burton.samograd@autodesk.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Daniel Colascione Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 01 10:20:39 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cCNXi-0006gl-VX for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 Dec 2016 10:20:39 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49052 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cCNXm-0001Fs-Qf for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 Dec 2016 04:20:42 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46065) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cCNVQ-0000Nl-AQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Dec 2016 04:18:17 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cCNVP-0004vO-Fv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Dec 2016 04:18:16 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:45023) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cCNVF-0004oJ-AD; Thu, 01 Dec 2016 04:18:05 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1cCNVE-0000AI-Ha; Thu, 01 Dec 2016 04:18:04 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Daniel Colascione on Tue, 29 Nov 2016 10:49:10 -0800) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:209869 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. ]]] > I do not think the portable dumper is something that's so complex as to > not be worth the performance, especially since any lread implementation > that's even close to being acceptably fast is going to be very complex > in its own right. Rather than arguing theoretically about speculations, let's see people do their best to improve the big-elc-file approach, and then compare facts with facts. -- 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.