From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: On elisp running native Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2019 19:08:29 -0500 Message-ID: References: <838smzq9iz.fsf@gnu.org> <8336d6rfgy.fsf@gnu.org> <83sgl6p1xa.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="143433"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" Cc: eliz@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Andrea Corallo Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Dec 29 01:08:40 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1ilM8N-000bED-Vn for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 29 Dec 2019 01:08:40 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47994 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ilM8M-0001nW-MI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 28 Dec 2019 19:08:38 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:40175) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ilM8G-0001nD-0Y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 28 Dec 2019 19:08:33 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:40748) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ilM8E-0001XK-Pr; Sat, 28 Dec 2019 19:08:30 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1ilM8D-000843-Hu; Sat, 28 Dec 2019 19:08:29 -0500 In-Reply-To: (message from Andrea Corallo on Sat, 28 Dec 2019 08:17:59 +0000) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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:243743 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. ]]] > Essentially using libgccjit means already describing C programs. > In other words instead of writing strings into a file, functions to > describe the program you want to compile have to be called. Libgccjit > let you describe through these a program with a C-like semantic. That means it is in some sense equivalent to generating a C program, My point is that it might be better to generate an honest-to-goodness C program, since Emacs already has the facility to load those. -- Dr Richard Stallman Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)