From: Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Changing the Emacs engine to Guile
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2010 21:22:17 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lja81992.fsf@linux-lqcw.site> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87fx0g2yu6.fsf@linux-lqcw.site
Op maandag 21 jun 2010 17:24 CEST schreef Cecil Westerhof:
> I read somewhere (I think this list) that there is the idea to change
> the engine from Emacs to Guile. I am afraid that this could result in a
> very big performance hit. A little script I wrote in Emacs Lisp takes 43
> seconds. When implemented in Guile it takes 102 seconds. So almost 2½
> times as long. So I was wondering: why do they want to change the Emacs
> engine?
Some other metrics:
Common Lisp 45 seconds
Perl 27 seconds (with a Perl optimisation)
AWK 29 seconds
sed 260 seconds
--
Cecil Westerhof
Senior Software Engineer
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/cecilwesterhof
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[not found] ` <87iq5cmjgp.fsf@fh-trier.de>
2010-06-21 16:40 ` Changing the Emacs engine to Guile Andreas Politz
[not found] ` <87y6e81d6f.fsf@linux-lqcw.site>
2010-06-21 21:04 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
[not found] ` <878w671qvm.fsf@linux-lqcw.site>
2010-06-22 8:38 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2010-06-22 10:05 ` Cecil Westerhof
2010-06-22 17:28 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2010-06-22 20:40 ` Cecil Westerhof
2010-06-21 19:22 ` Cecil Westerhof [this message]
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