Re: When should ralloc.c be used? (WAS: bug#24358)

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Richard Stallman <address@hidden>
> CC: address@hidden, address@hidden,
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> Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2016 15:18:38 -0400
> 
>   > I didn't say it will be unmaintainable, I said its maintenance will be
>   > harder than of Lisp code.
> 
> That's no horrible thing.

"Horrible" is in the eyes of the beholder.  I think keeping Emacs as
maintainable as possible is very important for its future.

> If some C code is an effective way to do it, we shouldn't
> reject that just because of a general preference for Lisp code.

I'm not rejecting it, just explaining why it shouldn't be the first
priority, IMO.