From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Why is Elisp slow? Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2018 18:04:58 +0300 Message-ID: <83bm83yxd1.fsf@gnu.org> References: <638fb7dc-6fc5-4645-8793-97a00038a3a8@googlegroups.com> <8hxojvzzzzzz.m4h.xxuns.g6.gal@portable.galex-713.eu> <20181006192457.GB7368@tuxteam.de> <86lg79yl54.fsf@zoho.com> <86d0slrb4h.fsf@zoho.com> <86pnwkpltx.fsf@zoho.com> <8636tgphps.fsf@zoho.com> <86o9c4np6q.fsf_-_@zoho.com> <8636tfocyl.fsf@zoho.com> <87va6b1r54.fsf@portable.galex-713.eu> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1539098045 18279 195.159.176.226 (9 Oct 2018 15:14:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2018 15:14:05 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 09 17:14:01 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@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 1g9thx-0004by-EQ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 09 Oct 2018 17:14:01 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52453 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g9tk4-0002Dx-09 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 09 Oct 2018 11:16:12 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60828) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g9tZO-000385-L6 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Oct 2018 11:05:19 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g9tZK-0001eA-Jc for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Oct 2018 11:05:10 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:34744) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g9tZJ-0001dX-Ao for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Oct 2018 11:05:05 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=2717 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1g9tZG-0001RE-RY for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Oct 2018 11:05:04 -0400 In-reply-to: <87va6b1r54.fsf@portable.galex-713.eu> 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: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:118232 Archived-At: > From: "Garreau\, Alexandre" > Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2018 10:05:43 +0200 > > > Why can't Elisp be compiled as well? > > Afaik it can, as any turing-complete language, that just requires hard > work: either writing a full native compiler, or interfacing with one > (like gcc). Please take a look at the libjit branch in the Emacs repository, it implements one idea of doing that.