Re: Compiling Elisp to a native code with a GCC plugin

[Andreas Schwab]

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <address@hidden> writes:

> Andreas Schwab <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Trivial regexp searches are already optimized to bypass the regexp
>> engine.  Doing a similar check in looking-at might be worthwhile.
>
> I did some trivial benchmarking with
>
> (while (search-backward "\n(defun " nil t)))
>
> and the equivalent re-search-backward in a buffer in a loop, and the
> search-backward version was about 8x faster.

How did you measure that?  When I tried I did not see any significant
difference.

Andreas.

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