Re: Why is Elisp slow?

[Stefan Monnier]

>>   - Writing wrappers in lisp for all our C functions exposed to Lisp I

All those are defined with a "DEFUN" macro on the C side.
Whatever change is needed on this side can likely be made largely
mechanically, so I'm not worried.

Similarly, you'll need to rewrite all the functions/macros like CONSP,
SYMBOLP, FIXNUMP, XCAR, XCDR, make_fixnum, ...  Performance of those
is important.

> What I was thinking about using CL to support Elisp is to define a new
> namespace for symbols (which, in CL terms, is a so-called ‘package’)
> named ‘elisp’.

As I already mentioned, this already exists: elisp.lisp.


        Stefan