Re: Logistics of Using Guile

[Noah Lavine <noah549@gmail.com>]

I would say that if Emacs uses Guile then we will have other people
worrying about interpreter speed so we don't have to (there's talk on
the Guile website of a JIT compiler), and it will be much easier to
extend Elisp if we want to do that (in order to implement a language
in Guile 2.0, all you need to do is compile it to any other language
that Guile supports, including the convenient intermediate languages
they provide).

In other words, it's a one-time effort for a long-term payoff. If the
effort is not horrible, it seems to make sense to do it.

Noah Lavine

On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 9:27 PM, David Reitter <david.reitter@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Apr 22, 2010, at 6:51 PM, Drew Adams wrote:
>
>>> I realize not everyone agreed that using Guile was good,
>>> for several reasons, but I believe most people did.
>>
>> FWIW - You may believe it ;-), but I would not assume that.
>
> Does it matter? Guile is another GNU project, so Emacs should use it!
>