Re: On elisp running native

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Richard Stallman <address@hidden>
> Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2019 20:17:57 -0500
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
> 
>                                    Compiling the Elisp code would be
> quicker and avoid errors, but will that savings be realized enough
> times to justify the time used for developing and maintaining the
> compiler?  I tend to doubt it.

Andrea published some numbers here:

  https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2019-12/msg00018.html

They seem to show speedup by a factor of 1.8 compared to bytecode.

Another, more synthetic set of benchmarks is here:

  https://akrl.sdf.org/gccemacs.html#org0d9acac

Those benchmarks show even larger speedups.