Re: On elisp running native

[Andrea Corallo]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
> Can you describe what happens using a simple example?  Suppose I have
> a simple function whose body does
>
>   (let ((i 0))
>     (while (< i something)
>       (foobar i)
>       (setq i (1+ i))))
>
> When this is compiled with libgccjit using your code, will the
> resulting native code include calls to Fwhile, Fsetq, and Fadd1?  Or
> will it convert the above to the equivalent machine-language loop?  If
> the latter, how does it know what to produce for Fwhile, for example?
>
> P.S.  Pointers to your code where it does something that answers the
> above questions are very fine.
>
> Thanks.

Hi,

I've extended the usual page (https://akrl.sdf.org/gccemacs.html) under
"Update 3" to follow an example of compilation process and load
mechanism as you have suggested.

Hope it helps.  Please let me know if something needs more
clarification.

Andrea
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