Re: Shrinking the C core

[Emanuel Berg]

Gerd Möllmann wrote:

>> Okay, but here it isn't about joining the CL standard, it
>> is the situation that we have "the Lisp editor" yet our
>> Lisp is much slower than other people's Lisp, and for no
>> good reason what I can understand as Emacs is C, and SBCL
>> is C. What's the difference, why is one so much faster than
>> the other?
>
> Just wanted to mention that SBCL is not implemented in C.
> It only has a small C runtime containing various GC
> alternatives and hardware/OS dependent stuff.

Ikr? Wise move! Like a real operating system ...

> The rest is Lisp, including bignums and compiler.

C is the fastest we have and SBCL don't even use it, they
don't need it. It is an embarrassment to the sport ...

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