From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: akrl@sdf.org, stefan@marxist.se, drew.adams@oracle.com,
emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: "Bringing GNU Emacs to Native Code" at the European Lisp Symposium
Date: Mon, 04 May 2020 22:56:33 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1jVnl3-0006wn-A9@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvwo5sb7qf.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (message from Stefan Monnier on Mon, 04 May 2020 01:17:02 -0400)
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> > > I go a little step further: while it's good if someone does it (and
> > > I think that it will likely come almost for free at some point),
> > > I don't think it's necessary to do it eventually.
> > It is sloppy to leave part of the job unfinished.
> > We should finish the job.
> We're talking about optimizing code: i.e., a job that can never be finished.
We're talking about implementing support, in the compilation package,
for the mode of operation which most Emacs code uses.
You may wish to deprecate that mode, but unless we do that soon,
it is no reason to leave that mode unsupported.
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Dr Richard Stallman
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Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org)
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-05-05 2:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-04-28 17:11 "Bringing GNU Emacs to Native Code" at the European Lisp Symposium Stefan Kangas
2020-04-28 19:25 ` Andrea Corallo
2020-04-28 19:35 ` Amin Bandali
2020-04-28 20:06 ` Andrea Corallo
2020-04-28 21:13 ` Amin Bandali
2020-04-29 3:24 ` Richard Stallman
2020-04-29 18:47 ` Andrea Corallo
2020-04-28 19:36 ` tomas
2020-04-28 22:00 ` Drew Adams
2020-04-28 22:18 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-04-28 22:51 ` Drew Adams
2020-04-29 7:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-29 12:38 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-04-29 14:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-28 22:38 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-04-29 10:55 ` Andrea Corallo
2020-04-29 15:35 ` Drew Adams
2020-04-29 18:57 ` Andrea Corallo
2020-04-29 19:29 ` Drew Adams
2020-04-30 1:14 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-04-30 2:27 ` Richard Stallman
2020-04-30 3:00 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-05-02 2:21 ` Richard Stallman
2020-05-02 13:43 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-04-30 20:32 ` Andrea Corallo
2020-05-02 2:27 ` Richard Stallman
2020-05-02 9:48 ` Andrea Corallo
2020-05-03 3:44 ` Richard Stallman
2020-05-03 4:28 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-05-04 3:09 ` Richard Stallman
2020-05-04 5:17 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-05-05 2:56 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2020-05-05 3:18 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-05-04 10:07 ` Andrea Corallo
2020-05-02 13:50 ` Stefan Monnier
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