Re: Guile based Elisp faster?

[Andy Wingo]

On Mon 23 Apr 2012 10:17, Thorsten <address@hidden> writes:

> Phil Hagelberg <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Maybe I should just wait for Guile to gain the capability to
>> run Elisp, since that would be another way to achieve this goal. 
>
> Will Elisp become faster when Guile runs it?

I think the current status is that the performance is similar.  However,
as Guile performance improves, we expect ELisp performance to improve as
well.

> Yesterday I did a little speed comparision between my two favorite
> Lisps (Elisp and PicoLisp) and Elisp did not perform that good (even
> when compiled). See http://picolisp.com/5000/!wiki?PILvsEL.

You can check out the "master" branch of Guile and try this with ,L
elisp.  It performs OK.

Regards,

Andy
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