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Re: Accelerating Emacs?
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Pascal Bourguignon |
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Re: Accelerating Emacs? |
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Mon, 28 Nov 2005 06:46:59 +0100 |
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> From: cstacy@news.dtpq.com (Christopher C. Stacy)
>> Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 01:09:36 GMT
>>
>> > Primitive operations that are used a lot and need to be
>> > fast are written in C, not in Lisp.
>>
>> Just for the record: the above optimization strategy is an artifact
>> of this Emacs-Lisp interpreter, not the Lisp language in general.
>
> Just for the record: this is gnu.emacs.help, so this Emacs-Lisp
> interpreter is the only one that matters here.
One could write an emacs-lisp compiler to native code and write even
the optimized parts in emacs-lisp. The only trouble would be that
you'd need a compiler back-end for each platform. Perhaps gcc should
include an emacs-lisp front-end?
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