From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: VanL Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Replacing all C code???? Date: Sun, 05 Jan 2020 14:35:58 +1100 Organization: BMF Prizefighter 'President' Trump 2020 Keep America Great =?utf-8?B?yZnJmTBA?= Ultimat Fighting Cybr Message-ID: References: <83blrkj1o1.fsf@gnu.org> <41b3e9a0-2866-4692-a35c-6d9541bc3aaa@Spark> <83lfqnha8a.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="104183"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.3 (berkeley-unix) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jan 05 04:37:24 2020 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 1inwjE-000Qz7-LJ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 05 Jan 2020 04:37:24 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38836 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1inwjD-0001io-FI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 04 Jan 2020 22:37:23 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:35644) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1inwiB-0000iL-E7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Jan 2020 22:36:20 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1inwi7-0006LQ-Aw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Jan 2020 22:36:19 -0500 Original-Received: from blaine.gmane.org ([195.159.176.226]:58356) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1inwi6-0006HL-UI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Jan 2020 22:36:15 -0500 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1inwi3-000PaQ-8R for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Jan 2020 04:36:11 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Cancel-Lock: sha1:Jxmq/IdF3gAJO2+aFXitRR6Eyww= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 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:243958 Archived-At: > Rewriting all the C code of Emacs in some other language would be a > tremendous job. With the same amount of work we could add many > important features that are lacking. We could make it possible to > edit fancy documents, which currently require a text formatter or > LibreOffice. News report in Japan say Microsft shortened the workweek by one day and productivity increased by 40%, perhaps fancy document prerparation isn't woth the effort from the Carlos Gone era of Corporate Commication. > If execution of the other language is slower, the slowdown could make > Emacs unusable on old machines. Old machines such as the T200 and > T400 are very important for our freedom since we can run them with > Libreboot. We must not downgrade support for them. My point is to divde and conquer the problem by taking advntage of the parallelism in the newer cpu, gpu, tpu. --  əə0@ 7 6 4 5 bit byte word 6502 memory map dma ssd intelligence io 🐞  一 二 三 言 語 𝔖 天夫大家 园 元 示 証明 白 記号意味 自己海外國漢本華人                                            Gnus/Emacs (berkeley-unix)