Re: Guile in Emacs

[Ken Raeburn]

On Apr 14, 2010, at 14:29, Tom Tromey wrote:
> FWIW, there was once an elisp JIT compiler.

> It was rejected:

Interesting!  I'd wondered if there'd be anything to gain from doing that, but 
stopped short of actually trying it myself.  I'm glad to see someone else has 
tried it, even if the conclusion from the experiment was that it wasn't worth 
folding in.  Actually, I'd been thinking about converting byte-code to C, 
changing stack slots to register variables, that sort of thing, and turning 
GCC's optimizer loose on it, but I doubt it'd perform all that much better than 
the JIT version if the primitives were dominating.

Thanks for the links!

Ken