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are there any cl implementations that use jit? there are a lot of cl implementations so i assumed there must be one



ABCL runs on the JVM. It generates JVM byte code, which then can be JIT compiled by the JVM.

CLISP has a byte code machine, for which a JIT can be used.

There might be others.


thank you! i didn't know clisp had a jit compiler, and i certainly should have thought of abcl, and also you mentioned them in your other comment in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38933091

how much of a performance boost does abcl get from the hotspot jit compared to, say, interpreted clisp


I have not made any performance comparison.




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