Re: Compiling Elisp to a native code with a GCC plugin

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Andreas Schwab <address@hidden> writes:

> Trivial regexp searches are already optimized to bypass the regexp
> engine.  Doing a similar check in looking-at might be worthwhile.

I did some trivial benchmarking with

(while (search-backward "\n(defun " nil t)))

and the equivalent re-search-backward in a buffer in a loop, and the
search-backward version was about 8x faster.

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