Re: Why not zlib-compress-region?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2014 20:00:34 +0300
> From: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>
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> > FFI implementations that *don't* require compilers have their
> > problems, too, since Lisp types sometimes map to different C types for
> > different libraries, which requires a lot of fiddly low-level
> > knowledge on the part of the Lisp programmers that (if they stick to
> > pure Lisp) they just don't need at all.  FFI == crashable Lisp.
> 
> Something to consider, I'm sure.  But that doesn't make the problem of
> having to have a working compiler installation in any way.

The last sentence was meant to say

  But that doesn't make the problem of having to have a working
  compiler installation go away in any way.

Sorry.