Re: Native compilation on Windows, was Re: Bootstrap Compilation Speed

[H. Dieter Wilhelm]

Hello Chad

could you please give a minimal setup to test the jansson library for
the language server protocol?  Is it enough to create a json file, setq
a default server address and search for function names? :-)

Thanks a lot

       Dieter

chad <yandros@gmail.com> writes:

> On Sat, Jan 29, 2022 at 5:24 PM H. Dieter Wilhelm 
> <dieter@duenenhof-wilhelm.de> wrote:
>
>  Thanks, do you know what jannson is needed for?
>
> It lets emacs do a bunch of JSON processing in C rather than elisp, which is 
> very helpful for a bunch of cases, especially some LSP modules.
>
> Just in case: Language Server Protocol; a semi-standard way for outboard 
> toolsets like specialized compiler suites to communicate with editors
> (primarily VSCode, but somewhat generalized and so supported in other editors 
> as well) about things like code completion and language-aware
> editing. The protocol ends up being pretty chatty, often sending a lot of 
> json back and forth, and the pure-elisp method of converting it had a
> pretty high overhead.
>
> HtH,
> ~Chad
>

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Best wishes
H. Dieter Wilhelm
Zwingenberg, Germany