From: Alessandro Bertulli <alessandro.bertulli96@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: What are trampolines?
Date: Mon, 05 Dec 2022 14:15:47 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87cz8yyogp.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
Hi all!
This is going to be very noob-ish, I apologize.
Going to update Emacs to ver. 30, I noticed in the AUR build script the
optional make target `trampolines'. The script documented them as
"Compile jitted elisp files with trampolines.", and allowed that target
to be built only if native compilation is on as well.
It's not clear to me what does it mean (particularly the documentation
string). What are trampolines? A quick Google-fu told me it's a
functional programming idiom related to continuation-passing-computation
(à la call/cc in Scheme). Does this mean is it something specific to
Elisp? But why do they need to be enabled at configuration time?
Thanks!
--
Alessandro Bertulli
next reply other threads:[~2022-12-05 13:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-12-05 13:15 Alessandro Bertulli [this message]
2022-12-05 13:28 ` What are trampolines? Eli Zaretskii
2023-04-24 12:24 ` Alessandro Bertulli
2022-12-05 21:38 ` Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
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