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Re: Preview: portable dumper
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Richard Stallman |
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Re: Preview: portable dumper |
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Fri, 02 Dec 2016 09:27:03 -0500 |
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> However, this is not about making existing code simpler. It's about
> _adding_ more C code, where an alternative implementation might allow
> doing that without such additions.
Yes, of course -- we all know that.
> It's a new and significant mechanism, which is central to building and
> starting Emacs. It needs to be studied, understood, and maintained.
> Therefore, it does increase the complexity.
It certainly increases the amount of code that understands Lisp object
formats. However, whether it increases the degree of complexity is
another question. I don't think it is a problem to have one more place
with the same kind and depth of complexity. That means _more_ work
on some future rare occasions, but it does not mean _harder_ work.
As long as we have people to maintain allocation and GC, I don't
think we would have trouble finding people to maintain the portable
dumper along with them.
But it's true that I have not seen the code. Someone should
look at the code and judge whether this is really true.
--
Dr Richard Stallman
President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org)
Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org)
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