Re: stats say SBCL is 78 875 % faster than natively compiled Elisp

[Emanuel Berg]

Jean Louis wrote:

>> ;; commands: [results]
>> ;;   $ emacs -Q -batch -l fib.el                    [8.660 s]
>> ;;   $ emacs -Q -batch -l fib.elc                   [3.386 s]
>> ;;   $ emacs -Q -batch -l fib-54a44480-bad305eb.eln [3.159 s]
>> ;;   $ sbcl -l fib.cl                               [0.004 s]
>
> Whatever those stats say

They say CL (with SBCL) is fast; and that natively compiled
Elisp is a good step from byte-compiled Elisp, and a huge leap
from not compiling it at all! However, compared to CL/SBCL our
beloved Elisp/Emacs is still just a turtle on steroids ...

> SBCL does not have tabulated-list-mode and integrated editor
> in the programming environment

Oh, we have Emacs for that! Check this out, including
instructions how to install a bunch of stuff ...

It's SLIME ... as you know well! You are just goofing
around. That's okay.

But while I got it to work, the level of integration is still
below what we have with Elisp. So I thought, with the native
compile step, we could maybe ... but no. Need speed? Use CL.
Simple as that!

;;; -*- lexical-binding: t -*-
;;
;; this file:
;;   https://dataswamp.org/~incal/emacs-init/ide/slime-incal.el
;;
;; install quicklisp and cl-sdl2:
;;   $ sudo apt-get --install-suggests install \*sbcl\* libsdl2-\*
;;   $ mkdir -p ~/common-lisp
;;   $ cd ~/common-lisp
;;   $ wget 'https://beta.quicklisp.org/quicklisp.lisp'
;;
;;   $ sbcl --load quicklisp.lisp
;;   * (quicklisp-quickstart:install)
;;   * (ql:add-to-init-file)
;;   * (quit)
;;
;;   CL-USER> (load "~/quicklisp/setup.lisp")
;;   CL-USER> (ql:quickload "quicklisp-slime-helper")
;;   CL-USER> (ql:update-dist "quicklisp")
;;   CL-USER> (ql:update-client)
;;
;;   CL-USER> (ql:quickload "sdl2")
;;   CL-USER> (ql:quickload :sdl2/examples)
;;   CL-USER> (sdl2-examples:basic-test)
;;
;;   $ sbcl # boot faster, redo this on update to SLIME or SBCL
;;   * (load 
"~/quicklisp/dists/quicklisp/software/slime-v2.26.1/swank-loader.lisp")
;;   * (swank-loader:dump-image "sbcl.core-with-swank")
;;   * (quit)
;;   then set `slime-lisp-implementations' as below

(require 'slime)
(require 'slime-autoloads)
(require 'slime-banner)
(require 'slime-repl)
(require 'super)

(load (expand-file-name "~/quicklisp/slime-helper.el"))

(setq inferior-lisp-program "/bin/sbcl")

(setq slime-lisp-implementations
      '((sbcl ("sbcl" "--core" "/home/incal/common-lisp/sbcl.core-with-swank")
              :init (lambda (port-file _)
                      (format "(swank:start-server %S)\n" port-file) ))))

(setq slime-startup-animation      nil)
(setq slime-words-of-encouragement nil)

;; sldb

(defun sldb-mode-hook-f ()
  (disable-super-global-keys sldb-mode-map) )
(add-hook 'sldb-mode-hook #'sldb-mode-hook-f)

;; slime

(defun slime-mode-set-keys ()
  (let ((the-map slime-mode-indirect-map))
    (disable-super-global-keys the-map)
    (define-key the-map "\C-hf" #'slime-describe-function)
    (define-key the-map "\M-9"  #'slime-eval-last-expression)
    (define-key the-map "\M-n"  #'slime-eval-buffer) ))

(defun slime-mode-hook-f ()
  (abbrev-mode)
  (slime-mode-set-keys) )
(add-hook 'slime-mode-hook #'slime-mode-hook-f)

;; slime repl

(defun slime-repl-mode-set-keys ()
  (let ((the-map slime-repl-mode-map))
    (disable-super-global-keys the-map)
    (define-key the-map "\C-\M-n" #'slime-repl-next-input)
    (define-key the-map "\C-\M-p" #'slime-repl-previous-input) ))

(defun slime-repl-mode-hook-f ()
  (slime-repl-mode-set-keys) )
(add-hook 'slime-repl-mode-hook #'slime-repl-mode-hook-f)

;; (find-file "~/common-lisp/general-base/gb.lisp")
;; (find-file 
"~/quicklisp/dists/quicklisp/software/cl-sdl2-20201220-git/examples/basic.lisp")

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