From: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
To: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Ahead of time compilation?
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2018 16:25:39 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <875zz73ee4.fsf@tromey.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180914181636.3ae6b46b@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> (Perry E. Metzger's message of "Fri, 14 Sep 2018 18:16:36 -0400")
>>>>> "Perry" == Perry E Metzger <perry@piermont.com> writes:
Perry> Given the recent JIT discussion, it occurs to me that a large
Perry> fraction of the elisp infrastructure in the average emacs is the
Perry> stuff that gets slurped in and undumped. Perhaps all that stuff could
Perry> get ahead of time compiled before undump for performance? Build time
Perry> isn't nearly as relevant for me as speed during execution, and on
Perry> platforms that don't have the infra, the interpreter could continue
Perry> to be use for that stuff.
See these:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2018-09/msg00451.html
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2018-08/msg00767.html
There's also the unfinished el-compilador, which is a different
expression of this idea.
Tom
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-09-14 22:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-09-14 22:16 Ahead of time compilation? Perry E. Metzger
2018-09-14 22:25 ` Tom Tromey [this message]
2018-09-14 23:52 ` Perry E. Metzger
2018-09-15 2:33 ` Tom Tromey
2018-09-15 6:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-15 21:33 ` Perry E. Metzger
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