April, an APL Compiler for Common Lisp [video]

Re:April, an APL Compiler for Common Lisp [video] by Avshalom on Friday September 11, 2020 @03:22PM (#24446375)

-Common Lisp vs C/C++

-April implements the language and just punts to CL for all the I/O and system level stuff. Like it doesn't have to implement a REPL, or a line editor or APL workspace files/array stores.

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Re:April, an APL Compiler for Common Lisp [video] by jonahx on Friday September 11, 2020 @04:20PM (#24446925)

Thanks. I'm guessing (based on my knowledge of J and all its optimizations/special forms) that Dyalog APL would still be more performant too? I didn't see it mentioned on the GH README.

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Re:April, an APL Compiler for Common Lisp [video] by phoe-krk on Friday September 11, 2020 @04:24PM (#24446973)

Yes, the talk mentions that Dyalog is still much more performant, given how much time and effort has been spent on optimizing it.

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