From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Compilation to native Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 12:47:48 -0500 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <87eks0654s.fsf@sno.mundell.ukfsn.org> <87n06bp4ng.fsf@sno.mundell.ukfsn.org> <8765cwkejr.fsf@mail.jurta.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1080064509 17852 80.91.224.253 (23 Mar 2004 17:55:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 17:55:09 +0000 (UTC) Cc: matt@mundell.ukfsn.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 23 18:54:50 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1B5q70-0008AO-00 for ; Tue, 23 Mar 2004 18:54:50 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1B5q6z-0007pg-00 for ; Tue, 23 Mar 2004 18:54:49 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1B5q6i-0001LB-Ns for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Tue, 23 Mar 2004 12:54:32 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1B5q5F-00019J-OP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Mar 2004 12:53:01 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1B5q4g-00010B-2i for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Mar 2004 12:52:58 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1B5q4e-0000zw-E1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Mar 2004 12:52:24 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.24) id 1B5q0C-00039m-FD; Tue, 23 Mar 2004 12:47:48 -0500 Original-To: Juri Linkov In-reply-to: <8765cwkejr.fsf@mail.jurta.org> (message from Juri Linkov on Mon, 22 Mar 2004 18:54:48 +0200) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:20806 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:20806 I thought about a different approach: predefined CCL programs could be statically converted into C code and compiled by a C compiler into Emacs core. It is worth a try. On the other hand, I have to wonder if the CCL interpreter could be faster.