Re: Emacs rewrite in a maintainable language

[Richard Stallman]

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  > Seeing comments in ancient code (I think it was related to
  > memory allocation) that translate to something along the lines of:

  >   “this magic number used to be value X in an even more ancient
  >    version, chosen as the result of trial-and-error on a small number
  >    of architectures at hand at the time of writing, and we have decided
  >    to increase it for totally non-scientific reasons, purely based on
  >    application of Moore's Law.”

Could you show us what actually occurs in the Emacs sources,
rather than this paraphrase?

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