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by pabs3 1278 days ago
Emacs now has AoT compilation of EmacsLisp, using GCC's JIT library:

https://blog.phundrak.com/emacs-29-what-can-we-expect/

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This is awesome! I use it since initial "gccemacs" announcements.

It is still order of magnitude slower than JS. Dynamic binding, ability to redefine or advice any function and fundamentally cache-unfriendly core datastructures (cons-cells) and absence of JIT hotspot optimization do not help to catch up with competition :(