From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Should we land Lisp reader optimizations? Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2017 21:57:44 -0400 Message-ID: References: <83y3snx6b7.fsf@gnu.org> <56EA228B-387F-4983-A91E-97ACFE56F42F@raeburn.org> <83a852wuk0.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1498096759 303 195.159.176.226 (22 Jun 2017 01:59:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2017 01:59:19 +0000 (UTC) Cc: eliz@gnu.org, raeburn@raeburn.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: John Wiegley Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 22 03:59:14 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dNrOp-00089R-O4 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 22 Jun 2017 03:59:11 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56647 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dNrOu-0007Fu-V3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 21 Jun 2017 21:59:17 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41617) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dNrNY-0006RL-SR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 21 Jun 2017 21:57:53 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dNrNY-0005Mv-4g for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 21 Jun 2017 21:57:52 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:37240) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dNrNR-0005JV-Jv; Wed, 21 Jun 2017 21:57:45 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1dNrNQ-0002I9-RY; Wed, 21 Jun 2017 21:57:44 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from John Wiegley on Tue, 20 Jun 2017 16:12:12 -0700) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:215873 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] These reader speedups sound uncontroversial. However, the question of what should replace unexec is another matter. I don't want starting Emacs to take 26 seconds -- and since I don't know what kind of machine that was, I worry that mine might take twice as long. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.