Re: Dynamic loading progress

[David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>]

"Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org> writes:

> David Kastrup writes:
>  > "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org> writes:
>
>  > > Er, what does "stop non-local jumps"?  What Emacs can do is catch its
>  > > own non-local jumps so as not to orphan non-Emacs stack frames.  It
>  > > can't catch (or prevent!) anybody else's.
>
> [Dubious :-) proof-of-concept which likely fails in some important
> case or other omitted.]
>
>  > So while it stinks like trouble all over, "can't" is too strong a
>  > qualifier.
>
> What was that you were saying to Paul about arguing the wrong side of
> your own point?  As usual, we are in violent agreement.

Not really I think.  Conservative garbage collection stinks like trouble
all over as well and Emacs does it.  It's sort of like the Sherlock
Holmes principle.  Once you've ruled out all the possibilities that
don't stink, it has to be one of the stinky ones.  So the decisive
factor is not whether a solution stinks or not, but whether there is
already one that stinks less and will work.

I don't see we are there yet.

-- 
David Kastrup