Re: Shrinking the C core

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: "Alfred M. Szmidt" <ams@gnu.org>
> Cc: incal@dataswamp.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2023 14:54:43 -0400
> 
>    >    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?  

It doesn't.  bytecode.c is already written in C.