Henry Baker <hbaker1 at pipeline.com> writes:
> I've written about this problem in Common Lisp in a series of papers
> on my web page. Basically, Common Lisp is designed to be incredibly
> difficult to optimize.
I've just read through some of the stuff on your website - the GIGO
columns are fun! Can you point me at the lisp papers you mean? Scanning
down the titles, I couldn't spot them immediately.
> Basically, if you really care about performance, you should learn to
> write code while watching the machine code being emitted. You will
> likely be pretty appalled by what gets done in most languages.
That's embarrassing - it didn't occur to me to dissasemble the two
generated functions. Thanks for the reminder!
Rupert
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