RE: Emacs freezes every now and then on my windows 7 pc

["Ludwig, Mark" <ludwig.mark@siemens.com>]

> From: Óscar Fuentes
> 
> "Ludwig, Mark" <ludwig.mark@siemens.com> writes:
> 
> [snip]
> 
> > To the point about some unnamed developer destabilizing the source,
> > our industry overall has a very poor record of educating and training
> > new people.  It's generally "baptism by fire" or "jumping in the deep
> > end."
> 
> That's not the case currently going on Emacs. There are a few developers
> who are working on very delicate, complex (and I'll say controversial)
> areas. Others are improving platform-dependent code, which often results
> on breakage on some other platform because nobody has the resources for
> testing everywhere before committing the changes. All of them are
> knowledgeable and responsible people.
> 
> It's business as usual, really.
 
Thanks for clarifying.  I guess this is where working in industry has its advantages.  My primary job is maintaining platform-specific code across Windows and several Unices, a mixture of 32-bit and 64-bit environments (LP64 and LLP64, just to add more fun).  I have all supported platforms available at my fingertips, so can test each change simultaneously on all platforms -- and do.

It's rather unfortunate that the platforms are not readily available to the Emacs developers, because frequently it's quite interesting to see which compiler/linker on which platform warns about which subtle problem that's ignored on other platforms ... until run-time.

Cheers,
Mark