Re: Why is Elisp slow?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: "Garreau\, Alexandre" <galex-713@galex-713.eu>
> Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2018 10:05:43 +0200
> 
> > Why can't Elisp be compiled as well?
> 
> Afaik it can, as any turing-complete language, that just requires hard
> work: either writing a full native compiler, or interfacing with one
> (like gcc).

Please take a look at the libjit branch in the Emacs repository, it
implements one idea of doing that.