>> This is a terribly written program. It uses 3-element lists as vectors
>> (including higher-order "vector" arithmetic using "map") and allocates
>> like hell. The compiler can not do much with this code, and it
>> produces CPS calls everywhere.
>
> I take it you are referring to the {add, sub,
Hi,
> The difference is, this one is much better code, which doesn't exercise
> the garbage collector, so it isn't much use as a GC benchmark.
Code involving SSQL would be good for a GC benchmark. I recently
reworked the query generation in Knodium to be up-front rather than at
access-time and go
On 08/04/15 22:27, Peter Bex wrote:
On Wed, Apr 08, 2015 at 08:26:43PM +1200, arc wrote:
I would also caution against generalising from Usenet to some wider
community. I haven't visited comp.lang.scheme in years, but I am on
my second go at trying to make sense of Forth, so I've been lurking
in
Hi,
NhanH reported in IRC that they could not get the date-literals egg to
work: (use date-literals) wasn't able to find the module.
After some investigation, Peter pointed out that no import library was
being installed.
Here's a patch that builds and installs the import as well as increases
the
On Wed, Apr 08, 2015 at 08:26:43PM +1200, arc wrote:
> I would also caution against generalising from Usenet to some wider
> community. I haven't visited comp.lang.scheme in years, but I am on
> my second go at trying to make sense of Forth, so I've been lurking
> in comp.lang.forth, and it's also
On 08/04/15 09:26, arc wrote:
> I
> did interact with (or at least see some interaction with) people like
> Marc Feely, Anton van Straaten, Felix (pretty sure?), Alaric, et. al.
>
> They all seemed like thoroughly nice people, and it's hard to believe
> the intervening years have turned them all n
On 08/04/15 00:18, John Cowan wrote:
Felix Winkelmann scripsit:
That there are so many implementors in the Lisp and Scheme community
probably makes this irrational emphasis on (execution-time)
performance so apparent in these groups. Or it's the remains of the
trauma of the AI-Winter, I don't k
On 07/04/15 22:59, Christian Kellermann wrote:
* Felix Winkelmann [150407 10:41]:
That is (among a few other reasons) why I don't do much Scheme or Lisp
programming anymore - thinking about the community, reading all this
bullshit makes me sick.
comp.lang.lisp/scheme is in ruins for most th
