Published on: 2025-05-31 21:37:16
Autology A hot take on Lisp metaprogramming, Autology is a Lisp with access to its own interpreter. What is it? Autology is a functional interpreted Lisp language, written in Clojure. The Autology interpreter function is defined as a data structure which is available to the Autology program, it is bound to the variable *i* . Whenever an expression needs to be evaluated, Autology will retrieve the current value of *i* from the current lexically scoped execution environment and use it to eval
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January 2022 9 months ago, I took a gander at PG’s guide to Bel. If you haven’t read it, here’s the premise: In 1958 when McCarthy invented Lisp, he started with a mathematical, rather than a practical definition. His paper was more similar to the spec for a Turing Machine than a spec for Fortran. For example, McCarthy didn’t even think that Lisp would run on real computers until his graduate student suggested it. This was the secret to Lisp’s power. Because McCarthy was unconcerned with how
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About a month ago, the CPython project merged a new implementation strategy for their bytecode interpreter. The initial headline results were very impressive, showing a 10-15% performance improvement on average across a wide range of benchmarks across a variety of platforms. Unfortunately, as I will document in this post, these impressive performance gains turned out to be primarily due to inadvertently working around a regression in LLVM 19. When benchmarked against a better baseline (such GCC
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