Re: Is Elisp really that slow?

[Xavier Maillard <xavier@maillard.im>]

> From: Óscar Fuentes <ofv@wanadoo.es>
> Date: Sat, 08 Jun 2019 23:44:15 +0200
> 
> tomas@tuxteam.de writes:
> 
> > On Sat, Jun 08, 2019 at 02:00:23PM -0700, Samuel Wales wrote:
> >> On 6/8/19, tomas@tuxteam.de <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.

I would say that it is fortunate. I did not buy the argument to let
the hardware optimize all the sucky software.

At least, this is going to be fun and all we need need is skilled
people (which I am not ;) ).

        - xma

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