From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?utf-8?Q?=C3=93scar_Fuentes?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs rewrite in a maintainable language Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2015 00:37:16 +0200 Message-ID: <87612dkp5v.fsf@wanadoo.es> References: <561A19AB.5060001@cumego.com> <87612des3y.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87pp0lrrlo.fsf@mbork.pl> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1444603094 25188 80.91.229.3 (11 Oct 2015 22:38:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2015 22:38:14 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 12 00:37:59 2015 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 1ZlPFe-00046e-Ul for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 12 Oct 2015 00:37:59 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50008 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZlPFe-0004vq-4M for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 11 Oct 2015 18:37:58 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56825) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZlPFB-0004vV-II for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 11 Oct 2015 18:37:30 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZlPF8-0000CC-CP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 11 Oct 2015 18:37:29 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:39418) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZlPF8-0000BY-5e for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 11 Oct 2015 18:37:26 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZlPF7-0003ZF-Fx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Oct 2015 00:37:25 +0200 Original-Received: from 198.red-83-32-113.dynamicip.rima-tde.net ([83.32.113.198]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 12 Oct 2015 00:37:25 +0200 Original-Received: from ofv by 198.red-83-32-113.dynamicip.rima-tde.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 12 Oct 2015 00:37:25 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 17 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 198.red-83-32-113.dynamicip.rima-tde.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:12tBXLF9islW/pT4ZcY6WKnYxNM= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 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:191287 Archived-At: "John Wiegley" writes: >>>>>> Marcin Borkowski writes: > >> That is, it might be a good idea to move some parts of Emacs core (which are >> not system-dependent or performance-critical, e.g., parts of interactive >> behavior like `self-insert-command' might fit here) from C to Elisp. > > If you can identify functions whose efficiency and behavior are not affected > by moving them to Elisp, that would be a great idea. One year or two ago, I found some obvious candidates and asked for Stefan's opinion, who didn't show much interest. Can't locate the message now. Searching the C sources for small, loop-free functions marked as interactive should not take much time.