From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs Lisp JIT Compiler Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2018 22:42:26 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87va8ej4o1.fsf@tromey.com> <87r2j1j05n.fsf@tromey.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1534387251 32165 195.159.176.226 (16 Aug 2018 02:40:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2018 02:40:51 +0000 (UTC) Cc: tom@tromey.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Tom Tromey Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Aug 16 04:40:47 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fq8DP-0008HA-Bc for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 16 Aug 2018 04:40:47 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53173 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fq8FV-0005jW-PL for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 15 Aug 2018 22:42:57 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44853) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fq8FH-0005hq-Pp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Aug 2018 22:42:44 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fq8FG-0002GG-4g for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Aug 2018 22:42:43 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:60073) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fq8F1-0001uI-5s; Wed, 15 Aug 2018 22:42:27 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1fq8F0-0007ei-LL; Wed, 15 Aug 2018 22:42:26 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87r2j1j05n.fsf@tromey.com> (message from Tom Tromey on Mon, 13 Aug 2018 17:51:16 -0600) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:228581 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > Richard> I don't think a 3% speedup is worth those drawbacks. Or even a 10% > Richard> speedup. A really big speedup would justify the costs. > It is 3x, not 3%. That is a big speedup. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)