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

[Wojciech Meyer]

Tom Tromey <address@hidden> writes:

> is hard to guess; lexbind comes into play because with lexbind, the
> various local bindings can just be C local variables, as opposed to much
> more expensive elisp bindings.

yep, because it just a run-time data structure, and no longer a pure stack
frame. So somewhat accessing directly memory needs to be much less
expensive.

Wojciech