Re: PLEASE COMMENT: faster elisp function calls

At 04:58 08/08/98 -0700, Ben Wing wrote: [ some neat stuff ] My biggest concern with this is that for me the slowness of XEmacs is manifest in the *loading* not the *execution*. Some of what you are talking about is front-loading the processing to load-time rather than execution time. If this means (and it may not) that there is significant load-time slowdown then I would be dead against this. For instance for me to start XEmacs and boot gnus with my mail probably takes getting on for 5 minutes. I would also like to see optimizations which specifically address this sort of issue as well, and what you are talking about may achieve this anyway. One thing I wondered about (and this may be fantasy on my part) was to combine dynamic linking with compiled lisp (aka the new unexec?) so that lisp packages could be optionally compiled to C and stored as a set of dll/so's. Then loading packages would be extremely swift since they would simply by linked into a running XEmacs. I guess this might require some rearchitecting of the internal lisp engine. andy --------------------------------------------------------------------------- " .sigs are like your face - rarely seen by you and uglier than you think" Dr Andy Piper, Technical Architect, Parallax Solutions Ltd mail: andyp(a)parallax.co.uk web: www.parallax.co.uk/~andyp