Re: A vision for multiple major modes: some design notes

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2016 09:05:23 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Drew Adams <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
> 
> I have no problem with stuff being in C for performance reasons.
> When that is not critical, keeping stuff in Lisp is good.
> 
> Especially for a new and very general feature: let folks play
> with it and experiment with new possibilities.  We can later
> optimize any parts we like.

The parts that affect redisplay must at least partially be in C,
because there's no existing infrastructure that I'm aware of that can
be piggy-backed to do this kind of stuff.