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by cperkins
Mon Sep 29, 2008 9:21 pm
Forum: Common Lisp
Topic: The Future of Lisp
Replies: 25
Views: 43622

Re: The Future of Lisp

Years ago, before I started working in Lisp, there was a project where someone developed a Lisp with auto-memoization (through some hardcore macrology, I believe, nothing more). I don't remember the exact details - I seem to recall there was a notation to denote whether a function was referentially ...
by cperkins
Mon Sep 29, 2008 4:58 pm
Forum: Common Lisp
Topic: The Future of Lisp
Replies: 25
Views: 43622

Re: The Future of Lisp

Even if the runtime of each task was known, optimal multi-core scheduling is NPC iirc../SNIP/...the best we can do is simple heuristic algorithms. Maybe someone should try it without any sort of optimizing algorithm. If massive mult-core is in the future, then I'd be interested to see how even a du...
by cperkins
Wed Jul 23, 2008 5:59 pm
Forum: Common Lisp
Topic: Does Common Lisp need a better type system?
Replies: 14
Views: 38171

Re: Does Common Lisp need a better type system?

I've always wished that CL had at least an option for compile time type checking. Maybe one of the commercial implementations have something.

Chris