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From: | Paul Eggert |
Subject: | Re: Why not zlib-compress-region? |
Date: | Sat, 28 Jun 2014 11:06:11 -0700 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.6.0 |
Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> So having an FFI implementation that requires a compiler might be a > disadvantage on Posix systems as well. Anything's possible. I don't think it's worth worrying about it. XEmacs/SXEmacs have*never* received complaints about availability of compilers for our version of "Stefan-style FFI".
My experience, such as it is, mirrors yours. Availability of compilers is not a significant problem on GNUish and POSIXish systems.
It'd be reasonable to implement "Stefan-style FFI" assuming the presence of a compiler, and then worry about systems lacking compilers later. We wouldn't be any worse off than we are now.
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