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

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

"Stephen J. Turnbull" <address@hidden> writes:

>  > Does everything have to be slow?  :-)
>
> Wrong polarity.  The question here is "does everything have to be
> fast?", and the answer is "no -- I mean, HELL NO!"
>
> Make your case that this function needs to be faster than a pure elisp
> implementation.

I think that's a rather ... stunning approach, but might explain many
things about XEmacs.

I've presented a use case, and I've demonstrated how all the alternative
implementations are 50-150% slower than my suggested new implementation,
and I've done the implementation, which turned out to be totally
trivial.  What more do you need?

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  address@hidden * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen