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On paper, it's really cool and I hope that more comes out of it. In practice, I'm not sure that taking 9k eval steps to turn a string lowercase is viable for an
by Vampiero 2y ago
On paper, it's really cool and I hope that more comes out of it. In practice, I'm not sure that taking 9k eval steps to turn a string lowercase is viable for anything.
- bertylicious 2y agoThis depends a lot on what an eval step actually is. Could you give us an example or a reference to compare it to?
- oersted 2y agoBut you can make any arbitrary compiler within the language itself to reduce certain patterns to fast native instructions. It’s interesting as a universal Intermediate Representation.
- Vampiero 2y agoDamn, that's true. I keep coming back to this thread hoping for more insight because the idea is very pretty.