From ... Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!129.240.148.23!uio.no!news-feed.ifi.uio.no!ifi.uio.no!not-for-mail From: Erik Naggum Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Subject: Re: read-sequence Date: 19 Sep 2002 03:54:36 +0000 Organization: Naggum Software, Oslo, Norway Lines: 15 Message-ID: <3241396476606010@naggum.no> References: <3D7C3507.4040405@alum.mit.edu> <3D7E03A7.90803@franz.com> <871y7rqpj4.fsf@noetbook.telent.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: maud.ifi.uio.no 1032407676 20561 129.240.64.16 (19 Sep 2002 03:54:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@ifi.uio.no NNTP-Posting-Date: 19 Sep 2002 03:54:36 GMT Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.lisp:41264 * Adam Warner | I only need to look at the time it would take to create a port of a somewhat | native code compiler that runs as fast as byte-code. A first approximation to a native port would indeed be to produce assembly code for an abstract machine that would probably require several native CPU instructions per abstract instruction, such that you would in fact produce native code and not require any byte-code interpreters. Once the system runs on the new platform, you could change the target assembly language. -- Erik Naggum, Oslo, Norway Act from reason, and failure makes you rethink and study harder. Act from faith, and failure makes you blame someone and push harder.