From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Shrinking the C core Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2023 14:24:18 +0300 Message-ID: <83a5uxhlel.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20230809094655.793FC18A4654@snark.thyrsus.com> <87il9owg0f.fsf@yahoo.com> <87ttt7odzh.fsf@arch.mail-host-address-is-not-set> <87leej7ima.fsf@gentoo.org> <83y1iigmh4.fsf@gnu.org> <87edkat1a4.fsf@dataswamp.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="39004"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Emanuel Berg Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 11 13:24:43 2023 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1qUQG0-0009s4-VC for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 11 Aug 2023 13:24:41 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qUQFD-0000mD-Nl; Fri, 11 Aug 2023 07:23:51 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qUQFC-0000m4-Pr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Aug 2023 07:23:50 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qUQFC-0002Z7-07; Fri, 11 Aug 2023 07:23:50 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From:Date: mime-version; bh=is9A/hZNpGbI4mJAqQ0HCLPlfW4BrbNfsF8D7COtca8=; b=hkAtpS9GxQev fE/uZmzE3oG7sixqiNdAAZ72mZpqcNWp7qXiv0nOJ8t3hN/iNNfmVSkdBsf+D5Ci1vqg2Vp+oNU4c a39MDz3fm3cjP2q4xlMHamygVLXgODqbX23CICDZzJx5GhcdqmmFmr/XDdX6iuvFJoW6h9Vd63IC0 cLEYYC2OVMVXOXmyJkKMINXhDcJHukzVmaql38FIi7hwgOrjG/84FC3Z0klemMxqrmF17Y3BDqP/x 7+o9aWPoEvmXHJV+EoYtINh4hMYhrTp+YgnH8wpRqGaUPZ9avq/bxLZUrtT0igJHbM/2lc4IY9qMy 8w1zkWr8KhYDf00pq7dFkA==; In-Reply-To: <87edkat1a4.fsf@dataswamp.org> (message from Emanuel Berg on Fri, 11 Aug 2023 10:45:55 +0200) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:308571 Archived-At: > From: Emanuel Berg > Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2023 10:45:55 +0200 > > Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > > Moving old and well-tested C code out to Lisp usually > > _increases_ maintenance burden, because the old code in most > > cases needs _zero_ maintenance nowadays. > > One could maybe identify certain slow spots in Elisp and see > if there would be a point moving them to C. Yes, and we are doing that.