On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 3:08 AM, Clint Moore <clint@ivy.io> wrote:
I'm using sbcl, and waiting for llvm to build so I can build clasp.
A LLVM infrastructure might be a healthy development. One of those "wait and see" propositions though. Clasp upon its release was cautioning it was 100x slower than SBCL. Clasp 0.2 claims a "2x" improvement over something; does that mean it's now only 50x slower? https://drmeister.wordpress.com/2015/01/25/release-0-2-of-clasp-is-available/ I'll leave it to others to chase down the benchmarks. I just expect these things to take a long time to bear fruit. Like the Julia guys for instance, their performance claims and desire to compete with FORTRAN sound great, until you drill down and realize they only have "stop the world" garbage collection. Meaning, they haven't even gotten into the real work yet.