koral

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1. 1.▲
   by koral 6y ago

   IMO benchmarking is a way broader topic. Specifically a single fibonacci example is not a good performance indicator by any means. For instance let's assume V8 is faster in average at running this kind of nanobenchmarks (probably at le
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   by koral 6y ago

   Asking as wasn't mention, was fib compiled with comp-speed 3? That should be considerably relevant in this benchmark. PS you can also run a wider set of benchmarks to compare against stock Emacs using: https://elpa.gnu.org&#
3. 3.▲
   by koral 6y ago

   The real trouble of using Emacs C core from another language is that you have to use all the internal datastructures used by C core, and this exactly equivalent to all elisp datastructures. This implies you have either to convert back and f
4. 4.▲
   by koral 8y ago

   Your points are really good. It's a pity that -std=c89 doesn't act as time machine in this respect... would have been useful https://godbolt.org/g/fKfDFq