Re: Emacs Lisp JIT Compiler

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Paul Eggert <address@hidden>
> Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2018 10:16:55 -0700
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden
> 
> Besides, none of the JIT approaches we're talking about are free from the 
> issues 
> Daniel raised: they all have significant performance differences on different 
> platforms. If we're going to reject a JIT approach merely because a 3x 
> performance improvement on one platform isn't equally shared by other 
> platforms, 
> we might as well just be up front about it and say we're going to reject all 
> JIT 
> approaches.

The fact there are platform-specific differences in performance
doesn't yet mean the differences are significant enough for us to
reject all of the JIT libraries.  We don't need to give up so quickly.