Re:How to make Lisp go faster than C [pdf]
by nearestneighbor on Sunday May 30, 2010 @10:52PM
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It's not just Lisp. Language advocates are the snake oil salesmen among computer scientists. Case in point: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/bnnoh/fast_auto...
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>It's not just Lisp. Language advocates are the snake oil salesmen among computer scientists.
It's true. (-: I submitted the paper mostly because it's a condensed "how-to" for optimizing Common Lisp code. I think the name of the paper itself is really, really sketchy.