As detailed in bug#41077, I compiled the feature/native-comp branch[1] on a low-end-ish laptop[2], blacklisting char-fold.el since native compilation took too much memory for this file. As reported there, I get appreciable speedups on the benchmarks distributed in the elisp-benchmarks ELPA package, except for one specific test: fibn. When native-compiled (with any value of comp-speed), this test makes Emacs abort with the message: > Memory exhausted--use C-x s then exit and restart Emacs I've plotted some graphs showing fibn's memory consumption for every value of comp-speed, as well as for emacs master[3] (where all 3 iterations run to completion):