From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Prickliness of the "invalid byte code" stuff Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2019 23:09:22 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87tvcq9b0w.fsf@igel.home> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="159013"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jun 18 05:10:19 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hd4Vm-000fES-CW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 18 Jun 2019 05:10:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53354 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hd4Vl-0006zT-26 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 17 Jun 2019 23:10:17 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:58432) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hd4Ut-0006zI-Qw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Jun 2019 23:09:24 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:34638) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hd4Ut-00080j-IR; Mon, 17 Jun 2019 23:09:23 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1hd4Us-0008NG-LO; Mon, 17 Jun 2019 23:09:22 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Stefan Monnier on Mon, 17 Jun 2019 14:10:58 -0400) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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:237819 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. ]]] > In any case, I think deprecating byte-compile-dynamic is a better > solution than trying to fix its many shortcomings, since I don't know of > any concrete evidence that it has any real benefit. Maybe you are right. I think byte-compile-dynamic was meant to reduce the memory size of Emacs, and that is less important now than it was. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)