Re:Emacs-ng: Emacs with Deno runtime and TypeScript
by dleslie on Tuesday March 16, 2021 @05:29PM
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... That still isn't an improvement of elisp speed. It might improve the performance of Emacs, but it's not improving the performance of elisp.
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Re:Emacs-ng: Emacs with Deno runtime and TypeScript
by cle on Wednesday March 17, 2021 @11:40AM
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Now we're just quibbling. No it doesn't improve the speed at which the Elisp interpreter can churn through Elisp bytecode. We can however dynamically improve the speed at which some Elisp functions return, which would have the net effect of speeding up consuming Elisp code.