Re: Emacs rewrite in a maintainable language

[John Wiegley]

>>>>> Ken Raeburn <address@hidden> writes:

>> The main reason I stopped is that it didn't help performance enough. The
>> slowness imposed by constantly looking up symbol names at global scope, due
>> to dynamic binding, dominated the profiling results.

> Do you think the introduction of lexical binding support changes the balance
> much? (Or was your work after lexical binding was added?)

I think it should really help performance, but I haven't measured yet.

John