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From: Pascal Bourguignon <spam@mouse-potato.com>
Subject: Re: Accelerating Emacs?
Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 06:46:59 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87acfps4rw.fsf@thalassa.informatimago.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.17015.1133155279.20277.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: cstacy@news.dtpq.com (Christopher C. Stacy)
>> Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 01:09:36 GMT
>> 
>> > Primitive operations that are used a lot and need to be
>> > fast are written in C, not in Lisp.
>> 
>> Just for the record: the above optimization strategy is an artifact 
>> of this Emacs-Lisp interpreter, not the Lisp language in general.
>
> Just for the record: this is gnu.emacs.help, so this Emacs-Lisp
> interpreter is the only one that matters here.

One could write an emacs-lisp compiler to native code and write even
the optimized parts in emacs-lisp.  The only trouble would be that
you'd need a compiler back-end for each platform.  Perhaps gcc should
include an emacs-lisp front-end?

-- 
__Pascal Bourguignon__                     http://www.informatimago.com/
Kitty like plastic.
Confuses for litter box.
Don't leave tarp around.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-11-28  5:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-10-28  2:25 Accelerating Emacs? Herbert Euler
2005-10-28  8:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-10-28 11:38   ` Herbert Euler
2005-10-28 13:16     ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found] ` <mailman.13045.1130488013.20277.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2005-11-28  1:09   ` Christopher C. Stacy
2005-11-28  5:21     ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]     ` <mailman.17015.1133155279.20277.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2005-11-28  5:46       ` Pascal Bourguignon [this message]
2005-11-28 10:26         ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2005-12-01  4:43         ` Stefan Monnier
     [not found] <mailman.12998.1130466347.20277.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2005-10-28  2:59 ` Flying Grass
2005-10-28  5:53   ` Herbert Euler
2005-10-28  8:23     ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-10-28 11:31       ` Herbert Euler
2005-10-28 13:13         ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]     ` <mailman.13044.1130487836.20277.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2005-10-28 10:36       ` Per Abrahamsen
     [not found] <mailman.13033.1130478796.20277.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2005-10-28  8:59 ` Alan Mackenzie
2005-10-28 18:28   ` Herbert Euler
2005-10-29 10:18     ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-10-29 11:44       ` Herbert Euler
2005-10-29 15:43         ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-10-31  3:26           ` Herbert Euler
     [not found] <mailman.13061.1130499101.20277.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2005-10-28 12:08 ` David Kastrup
2005-10-28 13:43   ` Herbert Euler
2005-10-28 12:49 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2005-11-01  4:55 ` Stefan Monnier

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