From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Guile in Emacs Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 22:11:40 +0900 Message-ID: <87r5mi2n77.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> References: <4B8147A9.7030504@gmail.com> <87aauiho3y.fsf_-_@lifelogs.com> <1271028837.6164.55.camel@dell-desktop.example.com> <1271102739.6067.38.camel@dell-desktop.example.com> <8039yz34ka.fsf@tiny.isode.net> <1271173887.6067.53.camel@dell-desktop.example.com> <87ljcqqxoc.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1271250817 20572 80.91.229.12 (14 Apr 2010 13:13:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 13:13:37 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Jeff Clough Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Apr 14 15:13:36 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O22PP-00040I-En for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 14 Apr 2010 15:13:35 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:42926 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O22PO-0005Tj-TJ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 14 Apr 2010 09:13:34 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1O22PJ-0005TU-O3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Apr 2010 09:13:29 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=51081 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O22PH-0005T4-1U for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Apr 2010 09:13:28 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O22PE-000069-VP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Apr 2010 09:13:26 -0400 Original-Received: from mtps01.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp ([130.158.97.223]:43358) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O22PE-00005R-NL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Apr 2010 09:13:24 -0400 Original-Received: from uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp [130.158.99.156]) by mtps01.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A3961535A8; Wed, 14 Apr 2010 22:13:22 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: by uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 6FCDD1A391C; Wed, 14 Apr 2010 22:11:40 +0900 (JST) In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: VM 8.0.12-devo-585 under 21.5 (beta29) "garbanzo" a03421eb562b XEmacs Lucid (x86_64-unknown-linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:123631 Archived-At: Jeff Clough writes: > Expecting the author of an application like that to carve out a > chunk of time for a complete re-write might be asking too much. Mike Sperber supervised a student at U. Tuebingen who wrote a proof-of-concept Emacs Lisp system in Scheme48, with quite reasonable performance characteristics for a student project. His estimate was that performance equivalent to existing bytecode of the time was achievable with reasonable effort.