Re: Ideal performance of ELisp

[Andrea Corallo]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>> Could it be possible to embed C snippets into lisp functions directly?
>> Similar to assembler snippets in C.
>
> Andrea is better placed to answer that, but I think it would be fairly
> easy to allow insertion of "C-like" snippets when the code gets compiled
> with the native compiler.
>
> Of course, we'd probably want to make it work even when the code is
> interpreted (or only compiled to bytecode).
>
> It would probably offer very handy improvements to the module API.

I think the main issue is that libgccjit does not compile C but
libgccir.  I can't think of a nice way to blend the two things as of
now.

  Andrea