Re: Shrinking the C core

[Alfred M. Szmidt]

   >    Does not look too bad in terms of the number of instructions. And I do
   >    not see any obvious indirection. 
   >
   > The Emacs VM will incure a switch to C for each call, SBCL doesn't.
   > You really cannot see the difference that makes?

   May you elaborate what you mean by "switch to C"?
   Emacs VM is running in C already.

How does the decoding of bytecode to C happen?  

Please take a look at the source code, it isn't that gnarly...