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The Emacs dumper dispute

The Emacs dumper dispute

Posted Dec 8, 2016 17:48 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: The Emacs dumper dispute by smurf
Parent article: The Emacs dumper dispute

The problem is not the interpreter. The problem is that the interpreter is tightly intertwingled into Emacs's C internals -- variables on the C stack often have alternate personae in the Lisp world and vice versa.

The problem is disentangling that such that the interpreter can be replaced, without making Emacs into even more of a maintenance nightmare than it already is.


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