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


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