Wednesday, March 10, 2004

I've upload a compiled version of IoVM for the Sharp Zaurus running the pdaxrom. The ~64Kb file is at iovm_2004.02.28_arm.ipk. 3:30:12 PM

Bill Clementson has a post about the speed of Lisp and optimizing. From a troll post on comp.lang.lisp came a challenge to get a benchmark within the speed of a highly optimized C program. The end result was the Common Lisp version actually outperformed the C verison. Well worth a read. What a lot of people don't seem to realize is that most modern Common Lisp implementations are in fact compiled to native code, they are not interpreted. The code entered at the read-eval-print loop is immediately compiled and run. 9:40:29 AM