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Re:Lisp: it's not about macros, it's about READ (2012) by gpderetta on Monday July 18, 2016 @06:37AM (#12114233)
How's that better than inline assembler? It seems to me that it is highly compiler (i.e. SBCL) dependent.
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Re:Lisp: it's not about macros, it's about READ (2012) by xuejie on Monday July 18, 2016 @10:11AM (#12115105)
I agree, it's essentially an inline assembler, but the fact that it integrates so well with SBCL tells us that the SBCL team really did an awesome job here.
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