From: Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Using Emacs Lisp for script writing
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2009 20:20:22 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87vdg09ls9.fsf@Traian.DecebalComp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.13065.1260980854.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Sam Steingold <sds@gnu.org> writes:
>> I already use 'emacs -batch' for scripting where no user input is used,
>> but I would like to use it also for interactive scripting. Until now I
>> did not find any usable information about this. Anybody using Emacs for
>> interactive scripts?
>
> I use clisp for all scripting, interactive and not.
> Common Lisp is more powerful than Emacs Lisp and clisp is faster than
> emacs.
I have been experimenting with clisp. But I think that Emacs Lisp does a
pretty good job. I translated a script I wrote in Emacs Lisp to CL. The
Emacs Lisp version needed 51 seconds on a certain data set. When using
clisp with the converted code, clisp needs 79 seconds. That is more as
50% longer.
--
Cecil Westerhof
Senior Software Engineer
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/cecilwesterhof
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-12-21 19:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-12-16 15:32 Using Emacs Lisp for script writing Cecil Westerhof
2009-12-16 16:24 ` Sam Steingold
2009-12-16 17:18 ` Teemu Likonen
2009-12-16 23:37 ` Cecil Westerhof
2009-12-17 19:08 ` Sam Steingold
2009-12-16 23:04 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2009-12-18 21:39 ` Andreas Politz
2009-12-19 10:02 ` David Engster
[not found] ` <mailman.13065.1260980854.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-12-16 23:31 ` Cecil Westerhof
2009-12-17 11:29 ` Cecil Westerhof
2009-12-21 18:35 ` Frank Fredstone
2009-12-21 19:20 ` Cecil Westerhof [this message]
2009-12-21 20:57 ` Sam Steingold
2009-12-21 21:13 ` Sam Steingold
2009-12-21 23:06 ` Tim X
2009-12-22 0:46 ` Cecil Westerhof
2009-12-22 11:26 ` Tim X
2009-12-22 13:51 ` Cecil Westerhof
2009-12-22 15:36 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2009-12-22 16:54 ` Cecil Westerhof
2009-12-23 2:50 ` Tim X
2009-12-23 7:38 ` Cecil Westerhof
[not found] ` <mailman.18.1261429198.1956.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-12-22 0:06 ` Cecil Westerhof
2009-12-22 12:51 ` Tim X
2009-12-22 15:42 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2009-12-22 17:04 ` Cecil Westerhof
2009-12-22 19:02 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2009-12-22 20:49 ` Cecil Westerhof
2009-12-23 3:19 ` Tim X
2009-12-23 6:27 ` Cecil Westerhof
[not found] ` <mailman.21.1261430019.1956.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-12-22 0:28 ` Cecil Westerhof
2014-05-10 5:54 ` mug896
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