Re: Preview: portable dumper

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Cc: address@hidden
> From: Paul Eggert <address@hidden>
> Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2016 12:21:13 -0800
> 
> On 11/28/2016 12:12 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > I think this is a wrong direction
> 
> If the proposed dumper works reliably and quickly and portably, Emacs 
> should be in a significantly better place than it is now. So in that 
> sense this is not the wrong direction.
> 
> Perhaps you're right and making lread faster would work better. However, 
> nobody has implemented that. If someone does implement it we can switch 
> to it later, regardless of whether we use the proposed dumper in the 
> meantime.

I'm not going to argue.  If enough people think I'm mistaken and want
to go the portable dumper way, I will resign right here and now.  It
is very easy to convince me to step down, because I hesitated to take
this job to begin with.

Your call, crowd.