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Re: Lexical binding: why?
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John Wiegley |
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Re: Lexical binding: why? |
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Tue, 28 May 2019 08:19:48 -0700 |
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>>>>> "AM" == Alan Mackenzie <address@hidden> writes:
AM> I always thought the idea was to speed the SW up.
Note that when I did performance benchmarking of the byte-code intrepreter, by
far the slowest (and most frequent) operation was looking up dynamic
variables. I have the sense that are many sexy optimizations we could do in
this area, though I believe that work has not begun yet.
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