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From: "Stefan Monnier" <monnier+gnu.emacs.help/news/@flint.cs.yale.edu>
Subject: Re: Differences between Elisp and Lisp
Date: 30 Apr 2003 19:02:09 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5ld6j3io7i.fsf@rum.cs.yale.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: m3n0i9egzm.fsf@quimbies.gnus.org

>>>>> "Lars" == Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <lmi@gnus.org> writes:
> and dispatching functions based on type would be nice.

Never heard that one.  What exactly would you like to see ?

> But there are really only two things that I think are really important.
> 1) Emacs Lisp is kinda slow.
> 2) Emacs Lisp is single threaded.

And both of those are very difficult to fix without first switching to
lexical scoping (which might be done by switching to CommonLisp, or Scheme,
or by modifying elisp, or whatever else).


        Stefan

  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-04-30 23:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.5343.1051607007.21513.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-04-29 10:22 ` Differences between Elisp and Lisp Friedrich Dominicus
2003-04-29 10:27 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2003-04-29 10:35   ` David Kastrup
2003-04-29 11:03   ` Oliver Scholz
2003-04-29 12:23     ` Phillip Lord
2003-04-29 14:17       ` Thomas Link
2003-04-29 15:43         ` Kent M Pitman
2003-04-29 15:56           ` Phillip Lord
2003-04-29 16:44             ` Kent M Pitman
2003-04-29 17:16               ` Phillip Lord
2003-04-29 18:41                 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-04-30 12:39                   ` Phillip Lord
2003-04-30 13:12                     ` Kai Großjohann
2003-04-30 18:07                     ` Kevin Rodgers
2003-04-29 18:59             ` Oliver Scholz
2003-04-30 12:43               ` Phillip Lord
2003-04-29 17:01       ` Kai Großjohann
2003-04-30 23:02   ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2003-05-01  5:22     ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2003-05-01  5:41       ` Friedrich Dominicus
2003-05-01  5:54         ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2003-05-01  6:37           ` [OT] " Friedrich Dominicus
     [not found] ` <yoijznm9y5yr.fsf@bilbo.dd.chalmers.se>
2003-04-29 13:45   ` Kent M Pitman
2003-04-29 15:23     ` Nicolas Neuss
2003-04-29 15:28       ` Nicolas Neuss
2003-04-29 14:23   ` Marco Antoniotti
2003-04-29 14:29     ` Phillip Lord
2003-04-29 19:06       ` Oliver Scholz
2003-04-29 16:51 ` Kaz Kylheku
2003-04-29  8:57 Daniel R. Anderson

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