mbenkard
Re:Stop sending .DOC files as mail attachments There is a better way
on Tuesday March 27, 2012 @09:31AM (#3761361)
If you try to add a diagram to HTML, suddenly you need two files.
That's not strictly true. You can embed inline object data in object tags (http://www.w3.org/TR/html40/struct/objects.html#h-13.3) using the data: URI scheme (http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2397.html). Whether that is good enough, I don't know. The data needing to be physically inserted at each point of use certainly isn't great for space usage and performance.
But then, in the context of email, why not just use MIME?
Re:Clojure Implemented in Pure Python
on Thursday March 01, 2012 @02:02PM (#3653484)
Interesting! Thanks for the pointer.
Re:Clojure Implemented in Pure Python
on Thursday March 01, 2012 @01:53PM (#3653448)
CLOS implementations have had to deal with the problem of extreme dynamism for a long time, so there has been quite a bit of optimization work associated with it. Polymorphic inline caches help a lot, for example.
That said, a good tracing JIT is probably better; but on the other hand, SBCL has profited from many years of optimization work on CMU CL. It would be interesting to see some real-world performance comparisons between SBCL and PyPy.
Re:Clojure Implemented in Pure Python
on Thursday March 01, 2012 @08:01AM (#3651898)
I don't understand. Do you mean that you can't compile Clojure into Common Lisp the way you can compile it into Python/PyPy?