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Re:The Emacs Problem (2005) by lispm on Monday October 19, 2020 @01:09PM (#24828428)
> SBCL, is written in C

SBCL is written in C, a bit assembly and most of the code is written in Common Lisp. For example the compiler which generates native code for various processors is written in Common Lisp. A lot of code can be written from Common Lisp, which calls external OS routines via Foreign Function Calls. Thus there is not much C-based glue code needed.

In GNU Emacs the execution engine running the byte code is written C. The byte code compiler is written in Emacs Lisp.

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Re:The Emacs Problem (2005) by twentydollars on Monday October 19, 2020 @01:32PM (#24828672)
So the ideal would be to have the execution engine written in elisp (or the elisp replacement)?
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Re:The Emacs Problem (2005) by lispm on Monday October 19, 2020 @03:12PM (#24829779)
why would that be the ideal?
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Re:The Emacs Problem (2005) by twentydollars on Monday October 19, 2020 @10:39PM (#24833457)
I guess I was asking pmoriarty. It's not my ideal. Just trying to understand their reasoning.
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