Re: Performance assistance / advice
"Marco Antoniotti (as marco dot antoniotti at unimib dot it)" <[email protected]>
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On Tue, Apr 15, 2025 at 7:09 PM Tim Bradshaw <[email protected]> wrote: > On 15 Apr 2025, at 14:34, Marco Antoniotti <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > ... which boil down to: there are two godzillion people working on C > compilers (*) and two on Common Lisp compilers. > > Absolutely. And all that effort has made a toolchain which produces code > which is ... 20% faster. In terms of benefit per <whatever currency unit > will replace the dollar> that has to be an impressively low figure. > In Italy we say "magra consolazione". > > > (*) Ok: half a godzillion: the rest is now working on Rust. > > rustc is LLVM-based so some of all those hours is going into both, > effectively. Julia is the same. > > --tim Well. LLVM is also the clang backend. And Julia is Common Lisp in a drag :) :) :) :) (I know: it is sexist and insensitive :) ) Cheers -- Marco Antoniotti, Professor, Director tel. +39 - 02 64 48 79 01 DISCo, University of Milan-Bicocca U14 2043 http://dcb.disco.unimib.it Viale Sarca 336 I-20126 Milan (MI) ITALY CSCE 2025 - csce.lakecomoschool.org