Re: Ideal performance of ELisp

[Stefan Monnier]

>>> 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.

I was thinking of a C-like DSL (probably with a Lisp-style syntax).
Designed to be easy to translate to libgccir as well as not too hard
to interpret when libgccjit is not available.


        Stefan