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bug#15294: 24.3.50; js2-mode parser is several times slower in lexical-b
From: |
Stefan Monnier |
Subject: |
bug#15294: 24.3.50; js2-mode parser is several times slower in lexical-binding mode |
Date: |
Fri, 13 Sep 2013 00:37:25 -0400 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) |
> Or is the byte compiler likely to be improved in this regard, so users
> need not be aware of it and take measures manually?
As indicated in the FIXMEs I added in src/bytecode.c at the time, the
current byte codes for unwind-protect, condition-case, and catch are
very inefficient for lexical-binding code.
I do hope to fix those issues by introducing other byte-codes which will
let us generate significantly more efficient code for those constructs,
but in 24.1, the priority was to get lexical-binding to work correctly,
performance being a secondary concern (tho for most idiomatic Elisp
code, the performance tends to be competitive).
What people should know is that
(let (x y z)
...(setq x ...)
...(setq z ...)
...(setq y ...)
is often a bad idea in Elisp, and even more so in lexical-binding code
(in some cases, if a variable is immutable it can be handled
significantly more efficiently, so the mere existence of a single `setq'
on a variable can sometimes slow other chunks of code: in many cases
`let' is cheaper than `setq').
Stefan
- bug#15294: 24.3.50; js2-mode parser is several times slower in lexical-binding mode, Dmitry Gutov, 2013/09/06
- bug#15294: 24.3.50; js2-mode parser is several times slower in lexical-binding mode, Dmitry Gutov, 2013/09/14
- bug#15294: 24.3.50; js2-mode parser is several times slower in lexical-binding mode, Stefan Monnier, 2013/09/14
- bug#15294: 24.3.50; js2-mode parser is several times slower in lexical-binding mode, Dmitry Gutov, 2013/09/14
- bug#15294: 24.3.50; js2-mode parser is several times slower in lexical-binding mode, Stefan Monnier, 2013/09/15
- bug#15294: 24.3.50; js2-mode parser is several times slower in lexical-binding mode, Richard Stallman, 2013/09/15
bug#15294: 24.3.50; js2-mode parser is several times slower in lexical-binding mode, Dmitry Gutov, 2013/09/14
bug#15294: 24.3.50; js2-mode parser is several times slower in lexical-binding mode, Stefan Monnier, 2013/09/19