Re: "Bringing GNU Emacs to Native Code" at the European Lisp Symposium

[Richard Stallman]

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  > >   > I go a little step further: while it's good if someone does it (and
  > >   > I think that it will likely come almost for free at some point),
  > >   > I don't think it's necessary to do it eventually.
  > > It is sloppy to leave part of the job unfinished.
  > > We should finish the job.

  > We're talking about optimizing code: i.e., a job that can never be finished.

We're talking about implementing support, in the compilation package,
for the mode of operation which most Emacs code uses.

You may wish to deprecate that mode, but unless we do that soon,
it is no reason to leave that mode unsupported.

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Dr Richard Stallman
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