From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: redisplay system of emacs Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2010 06:46:18 -0500 Message-ID: References: <27349166.post@talk.nabble.com> <83bpge50k5.fsf@gnu.org> <87vdem8gly.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <87k4v1xm4l.fsf@gmail.com> <83sk9prvnd.fsf@gnu.org> <87k4v1vz5f.fsf@gmail.com> <87hbq4d9jf.fsf@telefonica.net> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1264851990 5999 80.91.229.12 (30 Jan 2010 11:46:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2010 11:46:30 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: =?utf-8?Q?=C3=93scar_Fuentes?= Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jan 30 12:46:27 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 1NbBmU-0003Xz-Gy for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 30 Jan 2010 12:46:26 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:40649 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NbBmT-0007FX-Rz for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 30 Jan 2010 06:46:25 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NbBmO-0007DQ-2h for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Jan 2010 06:46:20 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=56028 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NbBmN-0007D7-Pk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Jan 2010 06:46:19 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NbBmM-0007bb-M6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Jan 2010 06:46:19 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:53279) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NbBmM-0007bV-Gb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Jan 2010 06:46:18 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NbBmM-0000fU-0m; Sat, 30 Jan 2010 06:46:18 -0500 In-reply-to: <87hbq4d9jf.fsf@telefonica.net> (message from =?utf-8?Q?=C3=93scar_Fuentes?= on Fri, 29 Jan 2010 19:56:52 +0100) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:120686 Archived-At: Whenever I look at the Emacs C codebase, I think that a language like the described above would do wonders replacing a good chunk of it. The code written in C in Emacs is mostly in C so it can be as fast as possible. To move it into such a language would be a big practical loss. There is some code that was originally in C but doesn't need to be fast. We have rewritten some of that code in Lisp in recent years. If more such C code remains, we could move that to Lisp too.