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Symbolics Genera doesn't pass S-expressions (i.e. text) between processes, it passed objects. Everything runs in a single address space so this is cheap and acc
by eschaton 10y ago
Symbolics Genera doesn't pass S-expressions (i.e. text) between processes, it passed objects. Everything runs in a single address space so this is cheap and accurate.
Also, ZetaLisp and Common Lisp have way more types than those supported by S-expressions. For example, they have real vectors/arrays, structures, and full objects.
Don't assume all of the Lisp world uses just the subset of Scheme used in the first couple chapters of SICP.
- jstewartmobile 10y agoOnly knowing Genera from a user perspective, I just assumed that process-to-process communication gives preference to the internal representation when it is available.
- gkya 10y agoWell if at the end in your programmes you got to manipulate structured data (represented by sexps which whatever extensions), then the guts are irrelevant.