From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs Lisp JIT Compiler
Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2018 16:23:11 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvlg92xgby.fsf-monnier+gmane.emacs.devel@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87pnyeql0i.fsf@tromey.com
> Daniel> Likewise, it'd be fantastic to compile regular expressions to DFAs and
> Daniel> then generate machine code for the DFAs. You can't go faster than that.
> I've been meaning to experiment with this using Stefan's lex.el.
> It seems to me that the bytecode compiler could open-code some common
> things like (looking-at "some constant").
lex.el's matcher (i.e. an Elisp loop interpetering the DFA
data-structure) is already pretty fast (i.e. competitive) in my
experience compared to the C based regex.c code. So I think that
a C implementation of lex.el's matcher would already be so fast that
generating machine code for it would only make sense in extremely
rare circumstances.
> One "simple" way to improve regexp matching right now would be to remove
> the self-modifying code and change the implementation to use token
> threading, like we did for the bytecode interpreter.
Indeed, our regex.c code has a lot of room for improvement. Given its
nasty worst case behavior, I've been reluctant to invest any more time
into it.
> I think removing this self-modifying stuff is also useful if we ever
> want to introduce first-class regexp objects.
It's also needed to make it re-entrant.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-08-19 20:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 60+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-08-13 4:01 Emacs Lisp JIT Compiler Tom Tromey
2018-08-13 5:37 ` Paul Eggert
2018-08-13 15:15 ` Tom Tromey
2018-08-14 0:16 ` Tom Tromey
2018-08-14 20:11 ` Daniel Colascione
2018-08-14 20:55 ` Paul Eggert
2018-08-14 21:03 ` Daniel Colascione
2018-08-14 22:38 ` Paul Eggert
2018-08-15 16:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-15 17:16 ` Paul Eggert
2018-08-15 17:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-16 0:29 ` Tom Tromey
2018-08-16 13:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-16 15:43 ` Daniel Colascione
2018-08-16 16:22 ` Andreas Schwab
2018-08-19 18:17 ` Tom Tromey
2018-08-19 19:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-19 19:16 ` Tom Tromey
2018-08-19 20:23 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2018-08-18 10:10 ` Steinar Bang
2018-08-18 11:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-19 10:00 ` Robert Pluim
2018-08-19 15:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-19 15:26 ` Tom Tromey
2018-08-23 0:47 ` Tom Tromey
2018-08-23 16:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-24 17:54 ` Tom Tromey
2018-08-24 20:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-24 21:03 ` Tom Tromey
2018-08-25 6:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-10 11:03 ` Ergus
2018-09-10 11:15 ` Robert Pluim
2018-09-10 11:53 ` Tom Tromey
2018-09-12 13:37 ` Robert Pluim
2018-09-13 4:32 ` Tom Tromey
2018-08-16 0:03 ` Tom Tromey
2018-08-16 2:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-16 18:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-13 13:50 ` T.V Raman
2018-08-13 15:18 ` Tom Tromey
2018-08-13 15:23 ` T.V Raman
2018-08-13 15:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-20 21:54 ` John Wiegley
2018-08-13 23:31 ` Richard Stallman
2018-08-13 23:51 ` Tom Tromey
2018-08-16 2:42 ` Richard Stallman
2018-08-15 0:21 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2018-08-16 0:32 ` Tom Tromey
2018-08-16 2:14 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2016-12-11 17:37 Nickolas Lloyd
2016-12-12 6:07 ` John Wiegley
2016-12-12 11:51 ` Nickolas Lloyd
2016-12-12 16:45 ` John Wiegley
2016-12-23 17:22 ` Nickolas Lloyd
2016-12-13 22:24 ` Johan Bockgård
2016-12-05 18:16 Burton Samograd
2016-12-05 18:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-12-05 19:32 ` Daniel Colascione
2016-12-05 21:03 ` Burton Samograd
2016-12-06 15:54 ` Lluís
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