From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Why not zlib-compress-region? Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2014 20:41:45 +0300 Message-ID: <83wqc153ty.fsf@gnu.org> References: <53AC0D17.9020604@yandex.ru> <53AD8EA8.9090805@yandex.ru> <83egy97cj6.fsf@gnu.org> <87k381w61p.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <83a98x6up5.fsf@gnu.org> <87fvipvvwk.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <831tu96kb1.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1403977339 18931 80.91.229.3 (28 Jun 2014 17:42:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2014 17:42:19 +0000 (UTC) Cc: aurelien.aptel+emacs@gmail.com, dmantipov@yandex.ru, sdl.web@gmail.com, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: stephen@xemacs.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jun 28 19:42:11 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1X0wde-0002iQ-D0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 28 Jun 2014 19:42:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55456 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X0wdd-0006kW-UQ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 28 Jun 2014 13:42:09 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:58014) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X0wdV-0006kN-Sv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 28 Jun 2014 13:42:06 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X0wdR-0007xt-1Z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 28 Jun 2014 13:42:01 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout23.012.net.il ([80.179.55.175]:40136) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X0wdQ-0007xn-PC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 28 Jun 2014 13:41:56 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout23.012.net.il by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0N7W00L003QZCL00@a-mtaout23.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 28 Jun 2014 20:41:55 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0N7W00LZK3TVAG30@a-mtaout23.012.net.il>; Sat, 28 Jun 2014 20:41:55 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <831tu96kb1.fsf@gnu.org> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.175 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:172805 Archived-At: > Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2014 20:00:34 +0300 > From: Eli Zaretskii > Cc: aurelien.aptel+emacs@gmail.com, dmantipov@yandex.ru, emacs-devel@gnu.org, > sdl.web@gmail.com, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca > > > FFI implementations that *don't* require compilers have their > > problems, too, since Lisp types sometimes map to different C types for > > different libraries, which requires a lot of fiddly low-level > > knowledge on the part of the Lisp programmers that (if they stick to > > pure Lisp) they just don't need at all. FFI == crashable Lisp. > > Something to consider, I'm sure. But that doesn't make the problem of > having to have a working compiler installation in any way. The last sentence was meant to say But that doesn't make the problem of having to have a working compiler installation go away in any way. Sorry.