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: An idea, now that we have dynamic loading Date: Sat, 05 May 2018 18:44:42 -0700 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1525571016 32044 195.159.176.226 (6 May 2018 01:43:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 6 May 2018 01:43:36 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.1 (darwin) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun May 06 03:43:32 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 1fF8i4-0008Eu-1z for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 06 May 2018 03:43:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40587 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fF8kA-0002PZ-Sj for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 05 May 2018 21:45:42 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43648) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fF8jT-0002PU-Iw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 05 May 2018 21:45:00 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fF8jO-0006q8-Nq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 05 May 2018 21:44:59 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:42619) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fF8jO-0006q2-K2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 05 May 2018 21:44:54 -0400 Original-Received: from auth2-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.228]:57609) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA256:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1fF8jO-0001iM-7d for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 05 May 2018 21:44:54 -0400 Original-Received: from compute4.internal (compute4.nyi.internal [10.202.2.44]) by mailauth.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86B7721AE1 for ; Sat, 5 May 2018 21:44:53 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from mailfrontend1 ([10.202.2.162]) by compute4.internal (MEProxy); Sat, 05 May 2018 21:44:53 -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 00918E4FD2 for ; Sat, 5 May 2018 21:44:52 -0400 (EDT) Mail-Followup-To: 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:225084 Archived-At: It occurred to me today that we have tons of examples of how Lisp functions can be written in a flavor C. This "compilation" is typically done by hand by a few experts. However, what if we had a compiler from Emacs Lisp -> Lisp-flavored C, which could turn .el files into .c files suitable for compiling into .so's that can be loaded into Emacs? -- John Wiegley GPG fingerprint = 4710 CF98 AF9B 327B B80F http://newartisans.com 60E1 46C4 BD1A 7AC1 4BA2