From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?utf-8?Q?=C3=93scar_Fuentes?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Is Elisp really that slow? Date: Sat, 08 Jun 2019 23:44:15 +0200 Message-ID: <87zhmrn45s.fsf@telefonica.net> References: <20190502214006.4fdsinp7u5xuqvdv@Ergus> <20190503004416.xfuzzucflp6bxpuz@Ergus> <8736lm30lz.fsf@web.de> <864l61j04d.fsf@zoho.eu> <20190511073254.GB29829@tuxteam.de> <20190608085246.GC28228@tuxteam.de> <20190608211453.GB17290@tuxteam.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="8962"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jun 08 23:44:58 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hZj90-0002Dl-Bt for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 08 Jun 2019 23:44:58 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60812 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hZj8z-0003W0-D3 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 08 Jun 2019 17:44:57 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:39639) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hZj8V-0003Kw-7I for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Jun 2019 17:44:28 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hZj8U-0001GR-7B for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Jun 2019 17:44:27 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=50246 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hZj8T-0001FT-Vm for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Jun 2019 17:44:26 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hZj8S-0001dz-MW for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Jun 2019 23:44:24 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Cancel-Lock: sha1:8fBEiLl13Mzy4azku412Hu+nWcI= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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:120854 Archived-At: tomas@tuxteam.de writes: > On Sat, Jun 08, 2019 at 02:00:23PM -0700, Samuel Wales wrote: >> On 6/8/19, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote: >> > On Fri, Jun 07, 2019 at 05:26:10PM -0700, Samuel Wales wrote: >> >> well, for me as a mere user, i just want elisp [per se] to run faster. >> >> maybe that has 1000 definitions, but the 3 things that i have read in >> >> this thread wfm as PERFECT targets for speeding up and would make >> >> emacs even better for me. >> > >> > Buy a faster computer, then :-) >> >> i was going to add somethning like "without buying a supercomputer" >> but figured nobody would say to get a new computer. > > [...] > > Yeah, I know. That's why I put a smiley in there. Single-thread speed > hasn't advanced for a while (on commodity hardware, at least) and it > seems it'll stay so for yet another while. Yep, we can't count on the hardware guys anymore to resolve our performance problems, we are forced to improve what we have if we wish to broaden what our tools can do on terms of data volume and/or complexity.