I read both articles and am looking forward to your next! I’d be interested in understanding more about the relationship of EMacs to GCC since you noted the authors were the same and the internals were written with some compiler awareness.
You made a great point. Since the original authors are the same, the fundamentals of the Emacs C core are indeed highly compiler-optimized. I hope I can come up with a way to fully understand and write about that history and relationship. (But to be honest, diving into that level of compiler history is a really hard topic to tackle!)
Thanks for the great inspiration and for taking the time to read!
I (briefly) searched for more info but this SO answer[0] implies they're quite similar. I'd be interested in understanding more. I feel like much of computer science has normalised to specific approaches that 'won' in the industry, where Lisp is an example of something interesting that largely didn't win -- with notable exceptions like HN itself! [1] :) And so hearing about uses of things like Lisp concepts in areas we might not know they're being used would be wonderful HN content.
[0] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/40799696/how-is-gcc-ir-d...