Re: Shrinking the C core

[Ihor Radchenko]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> 'car' does have a dedicated bytecode op-code, but that op-code simply
> calls XCAR, exactly like Fcar and CAR above do:

Then, I conclude that the example with CL version of `car' is actually
not worse in Elisp:

>> It should be quite obvious why SBCL is faster than the Emacs Lisp VM
>> (or even native).  Just look at this call to (car "foo"), and compare
>> what happens in Emacs.
>> 
>> * (disassemble 'foo)
>> ; disassembly for FOO
>> ; Size: 166 bytes. Origin: #x225D873F                         ; FOO
>> ...

In fact, the SBCL version looks more complex.

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