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From: | Cecil Westerhof |
Subject: | Re: Changing the Emacs engine to Guile |
Date: | Wed, 08 Dec 2010 15:15:11 -0000 |
User-agent: | Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) |
Op maandag 21 jun 2010 17:24 CEST schreef Cecil Westerhof: > I read somewhere (I think this list) that there is the idea to change > the engine from Emacs to Guile. I am afraid that this could result in a > very big performance hit. A little script I wrote in Emacs Lisp takes 43 > seconds. When implemented in Guile it takes 102 seconds. So almost 2½ > times as long. So I was wondering: why do they want to change the Emacs > engine? Some other metrics: Common Lisp 45 seconds Perl 27 seconds (with a Perl optimisation) AWK 29 seconds sed 260 seconds -- Cecil Westerhof Senior Software Engineer LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/cecilwesterhof
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