Re: Compiling byte code to native

[Matthew Mundell]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

> I simply deleted that TODO entry, since it looks like this optimization
> isn't worth a big effort.  Computers are so fast nowadays that Emacs
> Lisp code hardly needs speeding up.

The goal of the entry may also have been to ease the development of
Emacs' internals by introducing Elisp primitives.  Dave Love added the
entry.

> I only regret that you had to spend time on an optimization that turns
> out not to be fruitful.  Thank you for working on it.

Pleasure.  It was by choice, and well worth it for the experience.