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why is clisp so slow? design decisions? has development stagnated?

• gigamonkey 16y ago
  Last I knew, CLISP was based on a bytecode VM while SBCL and Clozure generate machine code. I think there may be some work on adding a JIT to CLISP but as far as I know it's still experimental.
  • apgwoz 16y ago
    That would probably explain it. Seems like it might be a good use for GNU Lightning.
    • mahmud 16y ago
      CLISP uses GNU Lightning in some superficial sense, but it's a compile-time option not normally built into release binaries.
  • deleted 16y ago
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