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by daniel-cussen 1544 days ago
Yeah, where did I read it, I think John McCarthy checked it out along with...who could it have been...definitely him.
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lispm 1544 days ago
Today one Lisp Machine CPU emulator written in assembler is 80 times faster than the original Lisp hardware. This could be made faster by a JIT compiler. Native code Lisp compilers for x86-64 or Apple's M1 are roughly 800 times faster than the original Lisp hardware (the third generation Ivory processor).
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daniel-cussen 1544 days ago
Wow! Really?! So the M1 really is faster in a non-gimmicky way? I could cut out this X86-64 assembly bullshit, at 800x I could be happy just with Lisp. Assembly all based on C by this point anyway...
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