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Re: Lexical binding: why?


From: John Wiegley
Subject: Re: Lexical binding: why?
Date: Tue, 28 May 2019 08:19:48 -0700
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.2 (darwin)

>>>>> "AM" == Alan Mackenzie <address@hidden> writes:

AM> I always thought the idea was to speed the SW up.

Note that when I did performance benchmarking of the byte-code intrepreter, by
far the slowest (and most frequent) operation was looking up dynamic
variables. I have the sense that are many sexy optimizations we could do in
this area, though I believe that work has not begun yet.

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