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Re:Emacs Lisp JIT Compiler by nerdponx on Tuesday August 14, 2018 @06:06PM (#17762344)
How did swapping out the Elisp interpreter for a Guile interpreter hurt performance so bad? Seems like it should be a pretty benign change.
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Re:Emacs Lisp JIT Compiler by tame73_binds on Wednesday August 15, 2018 @04:41AM (#17764543)
The work isn't finished, it runs but that's it. Comparisons aren't meaningful in the current state. Besides the bytecode thing, there was also an issue with string conversions that afair wasn't solved.
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Re:Emacs Lisp JIT Compiler by messe on Tuesday August 14, 2018 @07:51PM (#17762867)
Emacs pre-compiles byte code, I'd imagine that the guile version didn't do that by default.
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