Re: News from the lexical world

[Andrea Corallo]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>>> > Between native compilation and lexical scoping updates, emacs 28 is
>>> > looking to be a truly momentous released!
>>> Although the fact that bundled ELisp files use lexical-binding should
>>> have no visible impact on Emacs users
>> Nor native compilation, for that matter: it doesn't add functionality,
>> "only" speeds Emacs up.
>
> Indeed (tho it should be somewhat visible because of the extra files
> and the occasional difference in performance: use of lexical-binding
> can't even claim such minor impacts).

But we can say that the native compiler works better on lexical code as
on dynamic one just gives-up on any Lisp optimization :)

  Andrea