[pro] Learning Lisp the Bump Free Way

[Martin Cracauer]

Alessio Stalla wrote on Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 05:38:03PM +0100: 
> On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 5:04 PM, Alexander Repenning
> <ralex at cs.colorado.edu> wrote:
> > One point made:
> >
> >> It?s probably faster than most dynamic languages.
> >
> > is still mostly true but as I am tracking the speed of JavaScript versus Common Lisp I can see a scary performance cross over point > in the near future (months).
> 
> Are there big systems written in JS?

All Mozilla products.

I don't think anybody can seriously think that Javascript performance
can ever beat what CMUCL/SBCL can do to Lisp code that is declared
through and doesn't use CLOS (plus assorted other techniques).  And
even if so, if a certain somebody would finish the LLVM backend for
SBCL then it's easy picking :-)

Martin
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