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Hi,

I have been a lurker here for some time now ... I am curious if there
is anyone here who has worked on Lisp internals or maybe hacked the
GNU Emacs or XEmacs C code?

A friend and I are trying to hack the XEmacs GC and would like some to
discuss stuff with ...

regards,
Roshan Mathews

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Mon Nov 28, 2005 7:19 am

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Hi, I have been a lurker here for some time now ... I am curious if there is anyone here who has worked on Lisp internals or maybe hacked the GNU Emacs or...
Roshan Mathews
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Nov 28, 2005
7:21 am

Roshan, That's way beyond me, so far as I can imagine, but I haven't looked at the code. What's your application? I'm curious why you picked the XEmacs GC...
Thomas Elam
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Nov 28, 2005
5:26 pm

Thomas, ... In case someone on this list is unfamiliar with this: the *emacs editors are written as an underlying Lisp interpreter on top of which the editor...
Roshan Mathews
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Nov 29, 2005
6:04 am

Sorry, I only know a tiny bit about GCs. I am sure you know about all the free lisps mentioned at http://www.cliki.net/Common%20Lisp%20implementation but that...
Thomas Elam
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Nov 29, 2005
6:58 am

... They are the same GC. It was largely written by Hans Boehm and he is the currently active maintainer. He's modest and likes to give credit to all the major...
Ranjit Mathew
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Dec 6, 2005
5:42 am

Ouch! I'm sorry, Thomas ... but I hadn't seen your question. Ranjit answers it though. :) And yes ... we have about a passing familiarity with Lisp (scheme ...
Roshan Mathews
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Dec 10, 2005
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