Re: Shrinking the C core

[Emanuel Berg]

tomas wrote:

> https://xkcd.com/927/

  HOW STANDARDS PROLIFERATE (See: A C chargers, character
  encodings, instant messaging, etc.) SITUATION: There are 14
  competing standards. Geek: 14?! Ridiculous! We need to
  develop one universal standard that covers everyone's use
  cases. Fellow Geek: Yeah! Soon: SITUATION: There are 15
  competing standards. {{Title text: Fortunately, the charging
  one has been solved now that we've all standardized on
  mini-USB. Or is it micro-USB? Shit.}}

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?

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