From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "John Wiegley" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: An idea, now that we have dynamic loading Date: Mon, 14 May 2018 16:36:58 -0700 Message-ID: References: <87k1sb1ujp.fsf@tromey.com> <87o9hhhpzk.fsf@tromey.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1526340964 9181 195.159.176.226 (14 May 2018 23:36:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 14 May 2018 23:36:04 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.1 (darwin) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Tom Tromey Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue May 15 01:36:00 2018 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 1fIN0a-0002HH-Df for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 15 May 2018 01:36:00 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54353 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fIN2h-00006u-Fd for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 14 May 2018 19:38:11 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39012) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fIN2Y-00006i-EL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 May 2018 19:38:03 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fIN2T-0003al-IR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 May 2018 19:38:02 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:49747) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fIN2T-0003aG-Ec; Mon, 14 May 2018 19:37:57 -0400 Original-Received: from auth2-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.228]:58139) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA256:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1fIN2T-0004FK-7U; Mon, 14 May 2018 19:37:57 -0400 Original-Received: from compute4.internal (compute4.nyi.internal [10.202.2.44]) by mailauth.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id B192A223A0; Mon, 14 May 2018 19:37:56 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from mailfrontend2 ([10.202.2.163]) by compute4.internal (MEProxy); Mon, 14 May 2018 19:37:56 -0400 X-ME-Sender: Original-Received: from localhost (76-234-69-149.lightspeed.frokca.sbcglobal.net [76.234.69.149]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 597CC10262; Mon, 14 May 2018 19:37:56 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <87o9hhhpzk.fsf@tromey.com> (Tom Tromey's message of "Mon, 14 May 2018 15:44:15 -0600") Mail-Followup-To: Tom Tromey , emacs-devel@gnu.org 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:225295 Archived-At: >>>>> "TT" == Tom Tromey writes: TT> Anyway, the backend has some bugs, and it generates "Emacs C core"-style C TT> code, not "Emacs dynamic module"-style C code. Could some of our internal C sources be replaced by Emacs Lisp, which the Makefile would compile into C as part of the regular build process? This would allow testing using the Emacs Lisp version, with compilation into C for the sake of performance. And maybe benchmark would even rule out the need to compile that file in the end... -- John Wiegley GPG fingerprint = 4710 CF98 AF9B 327B B80F http://newartisans.com 60E1 46C4 BD1A 7AC1 4BA2