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<font size="-1"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Hi Alex,<br>
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<font size="-1"><font size="-1">M</font>aybe you should <font
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size="-1">Lisp meetings in meetup <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.meetup.com/find/?categories=34">http://www.meetup.com/find/?categories=34</a></font></font><br>
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<font size="-1"><font size="-1">S</font>ee you all tomorrow.</font><br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2/8/13 14:18 , Alex Plotnick wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap="">I'm pleased to announce that Alexey Radul will present his work on
the "DysVunctional Language" and its compiler at the next Boston Lisp
meeting. The meeting will take place on Thursday, 8 August at 6:00 PM,
in the Star Conference room at MIT's Stata Center (MIT 32-D463;
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="http://whereis.mit.edu/?go=32"><http://whereis.mit.edu/?go=32></a>).
Abstract:
The "Sufficiently Clever Compiler" has become something of a trope in
the Lisp community: the mythical beast that promises language and
interface designers near-unlimited freedom, and leaves their output in
a performance lurch by its non-appearance. A few years ago, I was
young enough to join a research project to build one of these things.
Neglecting a raft of asterisks, footnotes, and caveats, we ended up
making something whose essence is pretty impressive: you pay for
abstraction boundaries in compile-time resources, but they end up free
at runtime. The prototype was just open-sourced recently, so that
makes a good occasion to talk about it.
Bio:
Alexey Radul earned his PhD in computer science from the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology in 2009. His research interests focus on
programming languages, compilers, high-performance computing, and how
advances in the design and implementation of programming languages can
enable novel applications by expanding the complexity horizon.
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