On 30 Oct 2015 9:14 pm, "Paul Eggert" wrote: > > On 10/28/2015 08:12 AM, Le Wang wrote: >> >> >> I thought lexical-binding should always result in perf gains > > > Isn't lexical binding implemented by passing around a list of bindings? That might explain the performance problems you see. (Sorry, I haven't looked at the actual code; this is just my vague recollection.) I believe that's only the case for non compiled code.