Re: Performance assistance / advice
"David McClain (as dbm at refined-audiometrics dot com)" <[email protected]>
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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: > > > > 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: >> >> > ... 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 <http://dcb.disco.unimib.it/> > Viale Sarca 336 > I-20126 Milan (MI) ITALY > > CSCE 2025 - csce.lakecomoschool.org <http://csce.lakecomoschool.org/>