From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Why is Elisp slow? Date: Sun, 05 May 2019 11:40:57 -0400 Message-ID: References: <83muk4obfd.fsf@gnu.org> <20190502214006.4fdsinp7u5xuqvdv@Ergus> <20190503004416.xfuzzucflp6bxpuz@Ergus> <20190503103644.63lccjehmzulaojn@Ergus> <456EE4D4-F542-4F6A-B146-E6B9D72AE93B@icloud.com> <83tvebn1we.fsf@gnu.org> <20190503125832.44ovncaxp3vyjsla@Ergus> <20190504133218.g3ysx3ksuyvlthg3@Ergus> <86woj5u9k7.fsf@zoho.eu> <86o94hu7tf.fsf@zoho.eu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="81103"; 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 Sun May 05 17:41:29 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 (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hNJGa-000Kzq-Ig for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 05 May 2019 17:41:28 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:42724 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hNJGZ-0006fP-Ip for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 05 May 2019 11:41:27 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:48213) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hNJGE-0006f6-2j for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 05 May 2019 11:41:06 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hNJGD-0003jF-9v for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 05 May 2019 11:41:06 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=38266 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hNJGD-0003io-38 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 05 May 2019 11:41:05 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hNJGB-000Kaf-Jb for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 05 May 2019 17:41:03 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Cancel-Lock: sha1:ccJHggcB+1gj+D68ADdVTC+01e0= 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: 2.1.21 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:120209 Archived-At: > But very well then, why can't Elisp be compiled > as fast as CL (or C), and then be used on top > of (C) Emacs? Same meaningless question. > Or if it can, why isn't it? That's the valid question. AFAIK, the answer is that nobody was motivated enough to do it. Stefan