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: Sun, 31 Jan 2010 07:41:42 -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> <87d40rdaci.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 1264941772 20454 80.91.229.12 (31 Jan 2010 12:42:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2010 12:42:52 +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 Sun Jan 31 13:42:49 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 1NbZ8a-0003zW-SE for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 31 Jan 2010 13:42:49 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:36168 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NbZ8a-0006lS-5T for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 31 Jan 2010 07:42:48 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NbZ7X-00062t-SK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 31 Jan 2010 07:41:43 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=47501 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NbZ7X-00062V-Fn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 31 Jan 2010 07:41:43 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NbZ7W-00025s-Cd for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 31 Jan 2010 07:41:43 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:59622) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NbZ7W-00025o-64 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 31 Jan 2010 07:41:42 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NbZ7W-0004F3-0i; Sun, 31 Jan 2010 07:41:42 -0500 In-reply-to: <87d40rdaci.fsf@telefonica.net> (message from =?utf-8?Q?=C3=93scar_Fuentes?= on Sat, 30 Jan 2010 13:51:41 +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:120741 Archived-At: Nowadays, thanks to projects like LLVM, it is easy to roll an industrial-grade optimizing compiler if the language runtime requirements are not too far from C. It is straightforward to design a language that equals C in speed of execution and that is way more expressive. I am skeptical. In any case, if we use a compiled language we will compile it with GCC. We must support other GNU packages whenever possible.