Re: A plea for dynamically loadable extension modules

[David Kastrup]

"Stephen J. Turnbull" <address@hidden> writes:

> >>>>> "Mario" == Mario Lang <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>     Mario> Emacs is my favourite User Interface, so I'd like to
>     Mario> eventually make those bindings available to elisp.
> 
> XEmacs supports dynamically loadable extension modules (currently in
> the trunk LDAP and PostgreSQL are normally built as modules), and
> the facility is under active development.  We are currently working
> on extending the facility to the Windows environment.

Should the model lend itself to Emacs easily, or are there
specialities involved with the memory organization/garbage
collection/call semantics and whatever else would sound like it was
heavily dependent on the specifics of internals?

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum