Re: Shrinking the C core

[Emanuel Berg]

tomas wrote:

> As I see it, the main challenge for an Emacs maintainer
> isn't that it is software, nor that it is a big, complex
> piece of software. Rather, that its community is huge and
> diverse. Folks are using it in extremely different ways (in
> part due to the project's age), and moving something will
> break one usage dating back to 1997 or something.
>
> Still moving forward is a little wonder, and I'm genuinely
> in awe of Eli's job (although I'm not happy about each and
> every of his decisions, but I think that'll happen to
> everyone, due to the situation sketched above and is thus
> part of it).

Still, no good reason(s) what I can see why Elisp is so much
slower than Common Lisp ...

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