[pro] Learning Lisp the Bump Free Way

[Alessio Stalla]

On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 5:43 PM, Martin Cracauer
<cracauer at itasoftware.com> wrote:
> 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.

Mozilla products are in C++. Only the GUI is scripted in JS (XUL). And
handling GUI events is not high-performance computing in my book ;)

> 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 :-)

I completely agree.

Alessio