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Garbage collection is not part of the Common Lisp standard. DISASSEMBLE is magic and practically speaking it’s easier to write machine language performant code
by User23 5y ago
Garbage collection is not part of the Common Lisp standard.
DISASSEMBLE is magic and practically speaking it’s easier to write machine language performant code in CL than any other language. Yes of course you can look at =as= output in your favored language, but it drops you out of your flow.
- ludston 5y ago> Garbage collection is not part of the Common Lisp standard. Every important implementation of Common Lisp (Allegro, LispWorks, SBCL, CCL, ABCL, ECL, CLisp and Clasp to name a few) all have garbage collection.
- User23 5y agoSure, but the standard doesn't say anything about it, leaving implementers rather a lot of freedom. LispWorks even claims to have a real-time GC![1] [1] http://www.lispworks.com/products/myths_and_legends.html http://www.lispworks.com/products/myths_and_legends.html