Re: "Bringing GNU Emacs to Native Code" at the European Lisp Symposium

[Stefan Monnier]

> Such is life.  But even if dynamic-default binding can't get the same
> amount of speedup, it shoulod work correctly.

It does work correctly already.

> You might find a way to recognize that some bindings can't be seen by
> any other functions, and treat them as lexical on the grounds that
> doing so would not alter the result.

To get a good result out of this you need a non-trivial analysis
(there's actually a paper by a student of Mike Sperber that does exactly
that, BTW) and you still won't preserve the expected behavior when
advising or redefining functions.

It's much easier to adjust the source file to use Elisp/l instead of
Elisp/d and will give better results (and better compilation warnings,
etc...).


        Stefan