[Ffmpeg-devel] SVN dump

[Måns Rullgård]

Diego Biurrun <diego at biurrun.de> writes:

> On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 07:10:39PM -0400, Rich Felker wrote:
>> On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 05:21:21PM -0400, Dave Dodge wrote:
>> > On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 05:48:01PM -0400, Rich Felker wrote:
>> > > Hmm.... imagine an Emacs with Lua as its embedded language... :) :) :)
>> > 
>> > Unfortunately this requires two things:
>> > 
>> >   2) Delving into the emacs core C code.  From tiny glances at it over
>> >      the years, merely observing that code may be enough to destroy
>> >      whatever quantum-mechanical magic allows it to work at all.  I
>> >      just risked my sanity by glancing at lisp.h, and yes it appears
>> >      they are still using tagged pointers.
>> 
>> Indeed, it's a portability nightmare... XEmacs is immeasurably better
>> in terms of code cleanliness, porability, and lack of 1980's-style
>> implementation hacks, but sadly it's unusably outdated and corrupts
>> UTF-8 files (even many fully valid ones) when you load and resave them
>> due to conversion to/from legacy MULE charset which is not a superset
>> of Unicode. So I'm still using GNU Emacs..
>
> I switched from XEmacs to GNU emacs after seeing the speed difference
> between the two in action ...

Nothing that can't be fixed with an Intel Core2 Extreme ;-)

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