Re:Lisp System Implementation
by Annatar on Saturday June 01, 2019 @10:29AM
(#20069360)
"So much so that you might as well emit machine code instead."
Exactly, thank you!!! So why the hell would you screw around with bytecode!?!?!
I don't want portability, my source code is portability! I want the fastest possible machine code translation for the smallest possible program!!! That "portability" thing with bytecode makes me absolutely livid!!!
Re:Lisp System Implementation
by avmich on Saturday June 01, 2019 @12:22PM
(#20069911)
Remember, neither translation to machine code is guaranteed to be faster than translation to a VM bytecode, nor execution of such a code is guaranteed to be faster than execution of bytecode.
Exactly, thank you!!! So why the hell would you screw around with bytecode!?!?!
I don't want portability, my source code is portability! I want the fastest possible machine code translation for the smallest possible program!!! That "portability" thing with bytecode makes me absolutely livid!!!