From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Van L Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Why is Elisp slow? Date: Thu, 02 May 2019 14:49:22 +1000 Message-ID: References: <638fb7dc-6fc5-4645-8793-97a00038a3a8@googlegroups.com> <8hxojvzzzzzz.m4h.xxuns.g6.gal@portable.galex-713.eu> <20181006192457.GB7368@tuxteam.de> <86lg79yl54.fsf@zoho.com> <86d0slrb4h.fsf@zoho.com> <86pnwkpltx.fsf@zoho.com> <8636tgphps.fsf@zoho.com> <86o9c4np6q.fsf_-_@zoho.com> <8636tfocyl.fsf@zoho.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="200016"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.2 (darwin) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu May 02 06:53:23 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 1hM3ik-000ps0-V8 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 02 May 2019 06:53:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:45068 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hM3ij-0005xg-Pq for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 02 May 2019 00:53:21 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:42642) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hM3iX-0005xQ-DR for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 02 May 2019 00:53:10 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hM3iP-0006tw-2k for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 02 May 2019 00:53:04 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=56080 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hM3hu-00052o-Qg for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 02 May 2019 00:52:38 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hM3fj-000lEP-N6 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 02 May 2019 06:50:15 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Cancel-Lock: sha1:kax2aPMDWmK4CYCecWGGLGZQ3qc= 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:120127 Archived-At: Emanuel Berg writes: > Why can't Elisp be compiled as well? I came across this tip of an iceberg in the commentary. #+name: xxx-byte-opt-el #+begin_src emacs-lisp ;; "No matter how hard you try, you can't make a racehorse out of a pig. ;; You can, however, make a faster pig." ;; ;; Or, to put it another way, the Emacs byte compiler is a VW Bug. This code ;; makes it be a VW Bug with fuel injection and a turbocharger... You're ;; still not going to make it go faster than 70 mph, but it might be easier ;; to get it there. #+end_src If a big advance from an Industry player, such as FB, were to release a JIT, that the GNU Emacs legal dept. does not object to, does that help? -- © 2019 Van L gpg using EEF2 37E9 3840 0D5D 9183 251E 9830 384E 9683 B835 "How did we get to this point?" - William P. Barr