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> there's a very small and tiny layer of C at the bottom [...] That layer of C is hardly "tiny." Everything from font drivers to process management to a lisp
by noch 9y ago
> there's a very small and tiny layer of C at the bottom [...]
That layer of C is hardly "tiny." Everything from font drivers to process management to a lisp interpreter to window and buffer code, to overlays, and a lot more.
- dleslie 9y agoThere's 1,262,537 lines of elisp in 25.3, compared to 291,203 lines of C and C headers. While there is a fair amount of C code to do what you mentioned, much of the C is definitions for the core lisp language with 1,483 DEFUN statements in it. But yah, not tiny, sure. I'm looking forward to it being replaced via the REmacs project. https://github.com/Wilfred/remacs https://github.com/Wilfred/remacs