From ... From: Erik Naggum Subject: Re: loading Emacs-Lisp into CL Date: 1999/02/23 Message-ID: <3128739402059901@naggum.no>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 447385224 References: <3128569985478422@naggum.no> <87soc0yvp8.fsf@pc-hrvoje.srce.hr> <7ater9$aug$1@spitting-spider.aracnet.com> mail-copies-to: never Organization: Naggum Software; +47 8800 8879; http://www.naggum.no Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp * mikemac@mikemac.com (Mike McDonald) | Wouldn't it be easier to implement the byte code interpreter and just run | the .elc files instead? for this particular case, it would, but the byte code interpreter calls out to functions all the time, and you would need to implement almost everything anyway. the byte code is also more incompatible between the various versions of Emacs than the source is. not that it isn't a good idea, but it would probably cause a lot more work than you think to get it right everywhere. #:Erik