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		taeric 44 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Impossible Optimization, and the Metaprogrammi... Gave me a smile to see the shout out to LISP in there. Reading this take on it, it feels like a JIT compiler could also accomplish a fair bit of this? I'm also reminded of the way a lot of older programs would generate tables during build time. I'm assuming that is still fairly common?

pfdietz 44 days ago | [–]

Yes, this is all straightforward with Lisp macros. Beyond that, you can call the compile function in Common Lisp and do all this at run time too.

BoingBoomTschak 44 days ago | [–]

In fact, there's https://github.com/telekons/one-more-re-nightmare for CL.

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