bradain

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1. 1.▲
   by bradain 1y ago

   I really dislike the tiny lisp implementation mentioned in the article. Part of the beauty of a real "lisp in lisp" interpreter is that it is meta-circular -- that is, the interpreter is able to interpret itself. Using pmatch and
2. 2.▲
   by bradain 1y ago

   Yup, very familiar with SBCL. But the truth is, to get SBCL to the point where it's anywhere near the realm of C for performance there's a ton of work that the compiler has to do that GCC simply doesn't. Escape analysis to wo
3. 3.▲
   by bradain 1y ago

   Emacs isn't really a follower of the unix philosophy since it's more a hold-over from the world of lisp machines. Emacs also eschews the "everything is a file" philosophy of unix (programs in emacs are just lisp function