From: Matthew Mundell <matt@mundell.ukfsn.org>
Cc: emacs-devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Compiling byte code to native
Date: 02 Jun 2004 17:30:14 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pt8hvs6h.fsf@sno.mundell.ukfsn.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m1pt8i59l8.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
> > The native compilation effort introduced earlier this year is archived
> > at http://www.mundell.ukfsn.org/native. It can now compile all the
> > byte codes.
>
> The speedups are disappointing, but I'm not surprised: most byte-code
> operations end up calling non-trivial C functions.
>
> Maybe the results would be a bit more encouraging if you tried to compile
> lexbind byte-code (where local variables are kept on the byte-code stack
> rather than being varbound&varref'd).
This would be quite similar to compiling to a primitive, where the
arguments will have to be lexically scoped. It may show an
improvement over the standard byte-code, but the lexbind byte-code may
show a similar improvement.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-06-02 16:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-06-02 11:43 Compiling byte code to native Matthew Mundell
2004-06-02 14:22 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-06-02 16:30 ` Matthew Mundell [this message]
2004-06-02 17:04 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-06-02 18:05 ` Matthew Mundell
2004-06-02 22:56 ` Richard Stallman
2004-06-03 10:32 ` Matthew Mundell
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