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Bringing GNU Emacs to Native Code — HN submission

Tue, 13 Sep 2022 08:51:50 GMT

Bringing GNU Emacs to Native Code

2 points; 1 discussion reply on HN. Paper and source history. A submission is not an endorsement.

Bringing GNU Emacs to Native Code — mentioned by teleforce

Sun, 16 May 2021 01:32:41 GMT

After C and DasBetterC (safer C) have officially become the subsets of D language [1], it will be very interesting what languages will be the de-facto superset of D. With excellent support for metaprogramming and CTFE in D (amongst other features), these supersets language can be very flexible and fast at the same time. Kudos to the TIL's author for trailblazing this idea based on TCL. It will be very beneficial and handy for scripting commands and shell like behaviors. Just wondering is this type based TCL like language similar to Little? [2] Will it eventually support compilation similar to…

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Bringing GNU Emacs to Native Code — HN submission

Sat, 01 May 2021 23:46:38 GMT

Bringing GNU Emacs to Native Code (2020)

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Bringing GNU Emacs to Native Code — mentioned by melling

Wed, 29 Jul 2020 18:56:06 GMT

That sounds interesting: https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.02504 "Though still a work in progress, our implementation is able to bootstrap a functional Emacs and compile all lexically scoped Elisp files, including the whole GNU Emacs Lisp Package Archive (ELPA). Native-compiled Elisp shows an increase of performance ranging from 2.3x up to 42x with respect to the equivalent byte-code, measured over a set of small benchmarks. "

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Bringing GNU Emacs to Native Code — mentioned by pmiller2

Mon, 04 May 2020 19:19:41 GMT

I'd recognize a LaTeX beamer presentation anywhere. Here is the corresponding paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2004.02504.pdf

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