Re: Emacs rewrite in a maintainable language

[Daniel Colascione]

On 10/13/2015 05:02 AM, Marcus Harnisch wrote:
> Another potential I would see is the availability of higher-level
> (STL) data structures w/o dependencies on external libraries, thus
> allowing Emacsen to reduce their number of home-grown data
> structures. Seeing comments in ancient code

Similar comments apply to STL data structure implementations. We can
always do better with application-specific data structures than we can
with one-size-fits-all C++ data structures designed as reasonable
defaults, not optimal implementations. I'd hate for someone to think
that std::unordered_map, say, is somehow better than the data structures
we've used for a long time merely because the standard stipulates that
the runtime must provide it.

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