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Andy Wingo linked this on his blog, with this cryptic title and no elaboration. I read it, but I'm not sure I got it. What's the deal?
by etal 18y ago
Andy Wingo linked this on his blog, with this cryptic title and no elaboration. I read it, but I'm not sure I got it. What's the deal?
- apgwoz 18y agoThis isn't really proof that Scheme will be faster than C, and in fact doesn't really mention Scheme at all, except to show that it is a language that supports call-with-current-continuation as a primitive operation. What I got from the paper is that using continuations with intensional equality (that is to say their contents are the same) can be used to dramatically speed up a program. And so, a primitive way to create intensional equal continuations would be a potentially worthwhile primitive for a language.