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- From: robert@metropolis.com (Robert Munyer)
- Newsgroups: comp.compilers
- Subject: Re: Why is compiled basic slower than C? (Basic is the future)
- Keywords: interpreter, performance, Lisp
- Message-ID: <92-09-009@comp.compilers>
- Date: 25 Aug 92 08:29:01 GMT
- References: <92-08-042@comp.compilers> <92-08-095@comp.compilers>
- Sender: compilers-sender@iecc.cambridge.ma.us
- Reply-To: robert@metropolis.com (Robert Munyer)
- Organization: Metropolis Software, Inc.
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- macrakis@osf.org (Stavros Macrakis) writes:
- > [...] There are a few cases where Lisp code generates code on the fly,
- > then executes it. This is handled by having an interpreter loaded along
- > with the compiled code [...]
-
- ... or by having a COMPILER loaded along with the compiled code ...
-
- Also, much of the kind of programming that people used to do by generating
- and executing code on the fly, is now done instead by using functional
- programming and closures. In other words, using "lambda" instead of "eval".
-
- Robert Munyer
- robert@metropolis.com
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