Re: Optimising Elisp code [again]

[Emanuel Berg]

Robert Thorpe wrote:

> The libjit branch works by compiling bytecode
> into native code. As I understand it, this is
> done at runtime, so the user doesn't have to
> do anything. I think there was another
> project that did something similar at compile
> time. Compiling bytecode sounds a bit
> strange, but it makes sense. In many cases
> what the JIT does is emit the same code that
> is inside the bytecode interpreter. In a very
> simplified sense, it works like this.... So,
> the bytecode interpreter is a big switch/case
> statement. Somewhere there is instruction
> FOO. When the JIT compiler sees FOO it
> inserts into it's output buffer the code that
> was in the bytecoding interpreter to deal
> with that opcode. There are some
> optimizations beyond that.

So it is a JIT native compiler of bytecode.

> I think it's a good idea and I hope it will
> be merged into mainline Emacs one day.

Thanks for a great post and also cred to the
people who have been, are, and/or in the future
will work on the libjit project!

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