Re: Timing Comparison?

"David McClain (as dbm at refined-audiometrics dot com)" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.lisp.lispworks.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Yes, that is exactly what I am doing.

FWIW, SBCL has a pretty darn fast (but fastidious) compiled output on ARM. Impressive. I just wish it also had a CAPI.

> On Nov 1, 2025, at 14:06, Tim Bradshaw <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> On 1 Nov 2025, at 06:19, David McClain (as dbm at refined-audiometrics dot com) <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> The nature of Forth is that words are created on the fly with arbitrary behavior codes. So I set up a method on the construction of every Forth word to ensure that its behavior code is a compiled function.
> 
> You can (almost) rely on COMPILE to to this: (compile nil <thing>) will returm either <thing> or an equivalent compiled function if <thing> is already compiled.  It's allowed not to return the identical object, but copy it, hence 'almost' above.
> 
> --tim


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