Re: Performance assistance / advice

"David McClain (as dbm at refined-audiometrics dot com)" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.lisp.lispworks.general
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About 16 years ago I gave a presentation in Hamburg on a Lisp system for graphical DSP algorithm prototyping. During that presentation one of my slides was thus:



So, not just about relative speed of execution, but speed of writing bug-free code…

- DM



> On Apr 15, 2025, at 11:38, Marco Antoniotti (as marco dot antoniotti at unimib dot it) <[email protected]> wrote:
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> On Tue, Apr 15, 2025 at 7:09 PM Tim Bradshaw <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> On 15 Apr 2025, at 14:34, Marco Antoniotti <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
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>> > ... which boil down to: there are two godzillion people working on C compilers (*) and two on Common Lisp compilers.
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>> 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.
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> In Italy we say "magra consolazione".
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>> > (*) Ok: half a godzillion: the rest is now working on Rust.
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>> rustc is LLVM-based so some of all those hours is going into both, effectively.  Julia is the same.
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>> --tim
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> Well. LLVM is also the clang backend.
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> And Julia is Common Lisp in a drag :) :) :) :) (I know: it is sexist and insensitive :) )
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> Cheers
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