[slime-devel] Re: Recursive edit?

[Helmut Eller]

Michael Livshin <usenet at cmm.kakpryg.net> writes:

> never had any perceivable performance problems because of this.
> interpreted elisp is just Fast Enough.

It is usually just Fast Enough, until you write loops with macros like
loop or SLIME's destructure-case macro.  SLIME already byte-compiles
the most performance critical functions at load-time, so
byte-compiling the entire file doesn't by very much.

Helmut.