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Re: Differences between Elisp and Lisp
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Phillip Lord |
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Re: Differences between Elisp and Lisp |
Date: |
30 Apr 2003 13:43:09 +0100 |
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>>>>> "os" == Oliver Scholz <alkibiades@gmx.de> writes:
os> Phillip Lord <p.lord@russet.org.uk> writes: [...]
>> Optimisation might be an issue as well of course, but processors
>> are fast these days! Its nice, but not essential.
os> [...]
os> I disagree strongly. Emacs/W3 for example is sloooow, even on my
os> 1,5 GHtz machine.
Indeed.
I am not arguing that optimisation is a bad thing. I was just
suggesting that there are other concerns, which might be more
pressing.
os> BTW, I always wondered whether Elisp is partly to blame for the
os> fact that the myth of Lisp being a “slow interpreted language”
os> continues to live. Most of my friends which are interested into
os> computers have never heard about CL (until I told them, that
os> is), but they have heard that Emacs is partly written in Lisp.
It's possible, although the idea that lisp is slow predates emacs lisp
by a reasonable time. It would certainly be interesting to see how
much faster emacs would be if it were based on one of the common lisp
machines.
Cheers
Phil
- Re: Differences between Elisp and Lisp, (continued)
- Re: Differences between Elisp and Lisp, Thomas Link, 2003/04/29
- Re: Differences between Elisp and Lisp, Kent M Pitman, 2003/04/29
- Re: Differences between Elisp and Lisp, Phillip Lord, 2003/04/29
- Re: Differences between Elisp and Lisp, Kent M Pitman, 2003/04/29
- Re: Differences between Elisp and Lisp, Phillip Lord, 2003/04/29
- Re: Differences between Elisp and Lisp, Kai Großjohann, 2003/04/29
- Re: Differences between Elisp and Lisp, Phillip Lord, 2003/04/30
- Re: Differences between Elisp and Lisp, Kai Großjohann, 2003/04/30
- Re: Differences between Elisp and Lisp, Kevin Rodgers, 2003/04/30
- Re: Differences between Elisp and Lisp, Oliver Scholz, 2003/04/29
- Re: Differences between Elisp and Lisp,
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- Re: Differences between Elisp and Lisp, Kai Großjohann, 2003/04/29
Re: Differences between Elisp and Lisp, Stefan Monnier, 2003/04/30
Re: Differences between Elisp and Lisp, Kent M Pitman, 2003/04/29
Re: Differences between Elisp and Lisp, Marco Antoniotti, 2003/04/29
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