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Re: Some long term brainstorms

From: Steve Youngs <steve@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Some long term brainstorms
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 16:55:49 +1000
Organization: The SXEmacs Project
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* Johann Oskarsson <Johann> writes:

  > Hi,
  > There was a discussion between Steve and ... lg_ (Zajcev?) on
  > #sxemacs, about rewriting XEmacs (hereafter, XE) to make
  > multithreading possible, and for some other reasons, I suppose.

  > There are few remarks I'd like to make:

  > 1. Don't make sexy more memory/cpu intensive than it already is.

Agree totally.

  > 2. Aim for more extension languages, a la Gimp.

  >   This *will* require significant refactoring of the C core and
  >   involve a rewrite (version 45.0.0?).

Hehe.

  >   What do you think of this?

Interesting.

  > 3. Aim for a low memory usage embeddable ... distro?

Sure.

  > 4. Using garbage collectors.

  >   I want to look into usage of garbage collection libraries for the C
  >   core (and therefore the GC in lisp too).

Yep.

  > And right now, I think that's all I want to say.  Remember this is for
  > long term aims, so no worries, k, steve?

Hehe, that's cool, man, you haven't shocked me. :-)


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