On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 5:43 PM, Martin Cracauer <craca...@itasoftware.com> wrote: > Alessio Stalla wrote on Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 05:38:03PM +0100: >> On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 5:04 PM, Alexander Repenning >> <ra...@cs.colorado.edu> wrote: >> > One point made: >> > >> >> It?s probably faster than most dynamic languages. >> > >> > is still mostly true but as I am tracking the speed of JavaScript versus >> > Common Lisp I can see a scary performance cross over point > in the near >> > future (months). >> >> Are there big systems written in JS? > > All Mozilla products.
Mozilla products are in C++. Only the GUI is scripted in JS (XUL). And handling GUI events is not high-performance computing in my book ;) > I don't think anybody can seriously think that Javascript performance > can ever beat what CMUCL/SBCL can do to Lisp code that is declared > through and doesn't use CLOS (plus assorted other techniques). And > even if so, if a certain somebody would finish the LLVM backend for > SBCL then it's easy picking :-) I completely agree. Alessio _______________________________________________ pro mailing list pro@common-lisp.net http://common-lisp.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pro