Re: Development Speed

[Richard Stallman]

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  >  It is only something someone
  > who's spent years on maintaining Emacs can know.  And there are
  > some things not written at all, for example RMS in this subject
  > mentioned a significant issue on some old hardware support.

If there are places in the Emacs sources for which it is important
to know this, I think the information that is crucial to tell people
would be why certain specific things should not be changed.

But what would those things?  Probably not small things in C code.
The versions of GNU/Linux we run on these machines are not old.  New
versions continue to support them.  They will get newer GCC versions
just as other GNU/Linux users do.

What these machines won't get is any faster.

Thus, the thing we need to remember is, "Don't assume that the
computer is as fast as a 2012 laptop, let alone as fast as a 2022
laptop."
-- 
Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org)
Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org)
Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org)
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