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>>>>> "Lars" == Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <lmi@gnus.org> writes:
> and dispatching functions based on type would be nice.

Never heard that one.  What exactly would you like to see ?

> But there are really only two things that I think are really important.
> 1) Emacs Lisp is kinda slow.
> 2) Emacs Lisp is single threaded.

And both of those are very difficult to fix without first switching to
lexical scoping (which might be done by switching to CommonLisp, or Scheme,
or by modifying elisp, or whatever else).


        Stefan