Re: compiled lisp file format (Re: Skipping unexec via a big .elc file)

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
> From: Paul Eggert <address@hidden>
> Date: Mon, 29 May 2017 11:03:38 -0700
> 
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > My problem with this alternative
> > is that I believe maintaining it will need experts on C and C
> > compilers that we cannot rely on having available.
> 
> I don't see why we'd need any more expertise in C than we already require. 
> The 
> Emacs core is written in C, and one must be expert in C to maintain it. The C 
> code that would be output would be simple -- much simpler than what we are 
> already maintaining.

This idea requires _generating_ C, something we don't currently do,
AFAIK.

As for whether it will be simple, I reserve my judgment, since no code
was presented to demonstrate the idea for some reasonably complex Lisp
data.