Re: Complied into debs please (Python/Emacs packagers take note)
Brian May <bam@debian.org> writes:
> Why can't the bytecode be compatible?
It doesn't really matter (for Debian) whether there is a good reason
or not; it simply isn't, because of the upstream maintainers.
> Is there some good reason why every LISP interpreter must use
> incompatible byte code?
I can't comment on differences between XEmacs and GNU Emacs here. But
within the GNU Emacs versions, it is frequently the case that the
introduction of a new bytecode will significantly improve the
performance of compiled Emacs Lisp; and so the bytecode is added in a
new version. That creates an incompatible (but usually--though not
always upward-compatible) change.
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