Subject: Re: Interpreters (was: Lisp in hardware)
From: rpw3@rpw3.org (Rob Warnock)
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 08:35:58 -0500
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Message-ID: <a_-dneG_IcMjvYfcRVn-rw@speakeasy.net>
Alexander Burger  <abu@software-lab.de> wrote:
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| I'm quite surprised how little some people who posted to this thread
| seem to understand about the inner workings of an interpreter.
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Including yourself, perhaps?  ;-}

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| They keep on talking about the efficiency of lexical binding, which is
| true for compiled code, but which is not given for an interpreter.
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You're wrong. See Christian Queinnec's "Lisp in Small Pieces",
especially the chapter on "Fast Interpretation". This is all
very old technology which you have apparently missed...


-Rob

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