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pfdietztoday at 2:53 PM1 replyview on HN

Last I checked, CLISP compiles to byte code. Did they add a JITter for the byte code?


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fweimertoday at 3:10 PM

Compiling to bytecode is still compilation. An interpreter would operate directly on the S-expressions. Obviously, this makes some constructs (such as TAGBODY) very inefficient.