Re: Lexical binding doesn't seem to be faster?

[Stefan Monnier]

> Thanks, so, I did that, and without disabling GC results look quite odd.
>
> For "lexical-binding: t" it is:
>
>     - ...                                        2 100%
>      - list                                      1  50%
>       - -                                        1  50%
>        - let                                     1  50%
>         - let                                    1  50%
>          - while                                 1  50%
>           - funcall                              1  50%
>            - #<compiled 0x15833de3b0c9>          1  50%
>             - c-font-lock-fontify-region         1  50%
>              - c-before-context-fl-expand-region 1  50%
>               - mapc                             1  50%
>                - #<compiled 0x15833db80701>      1  50%
>                 - c-context-expand-fl-region     1  50%
>                  - c-fl-decl-end                 1  50%
>                   - c-literal-start              1  50%
>                    - c-state-semi-pp-to-literal  1  50%
>                       c-parse-ps-state-below     1  50%
>        Automatic GC                              1  50%

The code didn't run long enough to get any meaningful profile:
profiler-start is sampling-based (and apparently in the above we only
got 2 samples) so make sure the code runs for several seconds (the more
the merrier).


        Stefan