Using libgccjit to make Emacs 2.3x to 42x faster [pdf]

Emacs Lisp (Elisp) is the Lisp dialect used by the Emacs text editor family.
GNU Emacs can currently execute Elisp code either interpreted or
byte-interpreted after it has been compiled to byte-code. In this work we
discuss the implementation of an optimi… Read more

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