Re: launch a program in an arbitrary frame

[Hikaru Ichijyo]

Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se> writes:

> 20M of tarballed code is nothing in this day and age.
> It doesn't matter. What matters is what the code is,
> and what program it compiles into, and what that
> program does. If the program is brilliant and does
> something new (or something old in a better way) it
> might as well be 100M for all I care (and you
> shouldn't, either).
>
> The language issue is equally irrelevant (in all but
> the extreme cases). Emacs is in C and Lisp, which I prefer
> to C++ (unless the problem lends itself to
> OO/modeling, in which case I prefer C++ to C).
> Nonetheless, the expert C++ programmer with
> a creative/resourceful mind can do wonders with 20M.
> It is not the language, or the size of the tarball,
> that matters!

Well, for security, the size of it sort of does matter.  When we start
talking about web browsers, we're talking about code in a hostile
environment.  The big browsers have gotten themselves into a situation
where they are now so big that no one could possibly audit them.  I
don't want a browser like that to be a bundled part of Emacs.

-- 
He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from
oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent
that will reach to himself.
                                        --Thomas Paine