Re: Optimising Elisp code

[tomas]

On Thu, Oct 04, 2018 at 07:15:30PM -0700, Davin Pearson wrote:
> Suppose that you have a function:
> 
> (defun foo ()
>    (bar))
> 
> And bar is a function that has no side effects and returns 123 then calling
> the function code-optimize (the name of my optimisation routine)
> 
> M-x code-optimize on the function foo will result in the following defun 
> 
> (defun foo ()
>     123)

Have you already looked at the code produced by the elisp compiler? As
in doing "compile-function" and "disassemble-function"?

Have you had a look at eval-and-compile and friends?

Perhaps elisp is already doing (parts of) what you have in mind?

Cheers
-- tomás

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