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Re:Let's make the Emacs GC safe and iterative by sillysaurus3 on Friday March 02, 2018 @03:45PM (#16505524)
emacs doesn't have much foreign pointers for political reasons

This is an interesting connection. Could you elaborate on this?

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Re:Let's make the Emacs GC safe and iterative by quotemstr on Friday March 02, 2018 @04:49PM (#16506069)
We support external modules these days. I specifically designed its interface to allow for a moving collector. The current implementation of the C core, however, precludes such a thing.
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