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I'm solving advent of code puzzles in Julia (first) and Common Lisp (second). So far I like it quite a lot and I'm surprised that even my naive CL code is compa

I'm solving advent of code puzzles in Julia (first) and Common Lisp (second). So far I like it quite a lot and I'm surprised that even my naive CL code is comparable with Julia when it comes to efficiency (0.004s Julia vs. 0.009 CL for day 2).

mepian 6y ago
If you were more familiar with the roots of Julia, you wouldn't be surprised by that.
- dunefox 6y ago
  Care to elaborate more than that?
  - reikonomusha 6y ago
    Much of Julia was directly inspired by Lisp.
    - dunefox 6y ago
      I know, many languages are. Why would that directly influence the efficiency of the compiler?
      - reikonomusha 6y ago
        Common Lisp not only explicitly has the notion of compilation as a part of the language definition and standard library, but the language is/was also traditionally seen as ripe for native compilation. Efficient and serious compilation of Lisp dates back to at least the late 70s.