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From: Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr>
Date: 09 Jan 1997 18:40:56 +0100
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Kyle Jones (kyle_jones@wonderworks.com) wrote:
> For years I've heard how much greater, cooler and (most often)
> faster Emacs-Lisp would be if it were lexically scoped.  Has
> anyone given any thought toward putting a lexically scoped Lisp
> byte-compiler and byte-code interpreter into XEmacs?  This would
> not replace the existing compiler and interpret but would be in
> addition to them.  Is there anything handy out there we could use
> as a starting point?

Yes, thought was given to that.  Have you read
<URL:http://www.xemacs.org/beta/futures/lexical.html>?  It looks as a
good starting point.

As for speed, Erik Naggum has posted an assessment about an average
speedup of 2x (twice faster Elisp), based on various functions with
speedups from none to 10x.

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