Re: Preview: portable dumper

[Richard Stallman]

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  > However, this is not about making existing code simpler.  It's about
  > _adding_ more C code, where an alternative implementation might allow
  > doing that without such additions.

Yes, of course -- we all know that.

  > It's a new and significant mechanism, which is central to building and
  > starting Emacs.  It needs to be studied, understood, and maintained.
  > Therefore, it does increase the complexity.

It certainly increases the amount of code that understands Lisp object
formats.  However, whether it increases the degree of complexity is
another question.  I don't think it is a problem to have one more place
with the same kind and depth of complexity.  That means _more_ work
on some future rare occasions, but it does not mean _harder_ work.

As long as we have people to maintain allocation and GC, I don't
think we would have trouble finding people to maintain the portable
dumper along with them.

But it's true that I have not seen the code.  Someone should
look at the code and judge whether this is really true.

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