From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, ulm@gentoo.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: zlib autoconf question
Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2013 18:12:39 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m31u5yevm0.fsf@stories.gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwva9kmrj35.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Mon, 12 Aug 2013 12:05:30 -0400")
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
> With an FFI you don't even need the headers. The library could be used
> even if it didn't exist back when Emacs was built.
If you look at how much scaffolding is typically needed to use a C
library in Emacs, I'm not sure how realistic that is. I mean -- zlib is
a pretty straightforward library. I look at decompress.c and try to
envision how much Emacs Lisp would have to be exposed to C things, and I
think it's perhaps ... a lot.
I've done quite a bit of FFI in Lispworks. It's kinda grody. I frequently
end up with a bit of C scaffolding just to make things easier.
And Lispworks doesn't have all the funky concepts that Emacs has.
--
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-08-12 16:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-08-08 11:14 zlib autoconf question Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2013-08-08 11:23 ` Jérémie Courrèges-Anglas
2013-08-08 12:46 ` Andreas Schwab
2013-08-08 12:48 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2013-08-08 13:26 ` Andreas Schwab
2013-08-08 12:47 ` Paul Eggert
2013-08-08 12:49 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2013-08-08 12:57 ` Dmitry Antipov
2013-08-08 16:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-08-11 19:52 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2013-08-08 12:55 ` Ulrich Mueller
2013-08-11 19:53 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2013-08-11 20:28 ` Ulrich Mueller
2013-08-11 22:01 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2013-08-11 22:54 ` Ulrich Mueller
2013-08-11 22:59 ` Paul Eggert
2013-08-12 2:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-08-12 13:58 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-08-12 13:58 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-08-12 15:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-08-12 16:05 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-08-12 16:12 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2013-08-12 16:35 ` Richard Stallman
2013-08-12 18:20 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2013-08-12 19:17 ` Paul Eggert
2013-08-12 5:45 ` Dmitry Antipov
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