Re: elisp-benchmarks

[Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

> These result suggest that the symbol-with-pos changes don't introduce
> a significant slowdown, even for the bytecompiler.

Well, that's good news.  😀

> And we see that Matthias's recent improvements to the bytecode
> interpreter do make a quite significant difference on several of those
> microbenchmarks ;-), and also on the bytecompiler benchmark (offsetting
> the extra work needed for the symbol-with-positions)

Looks like Matthias's work has made a significant positive impact on
virtually all the tests.  Great work, Matthias!

> tho they don't make much of a difference when it comes to
> scrolling(with-jit-lock) or when it comes to reindenting code with
> SMIE :-)

Darn.

> The >10% slowdown recently seen on the test suite is still a mystery
> waiting for someone to figure out what's going on.

Yes, but it sounded like Alan was chasing down oddities in
byte-compiling the ert tests, so hopefully we'll have an answer soonish.

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