[Ffmpeg-devel] SVN dump

[Rich Felker]

On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 01:32:33AM +0200, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> 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 implementation hacks, but sadly it's unusably outdated and corrupts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 ...

Weird.. I found XEmacs several times faster but maybe it's because I'm
using the console (-nw) version and not the GUI..?

Rich