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Re: linux book
Omer <omer@cs.bgu.ac.il> writes:
>
> Do not forget that Perl uses a viirtual machine and garbage collection,
> BTW. This makes it another bit like LISP.
LISP doesn't have a "virtual machine." CLTL2 and ANSI CL leave the
actual representation of compiled code up to the implementation. This
usually boils down to two major approaches: byte compilation (note,
the latter does not necessarily imply the VM; in most cases it is just
"fast loaded" stuff) or compilation to native object code. Some
advanced LISP implementations for large UNIX machines do that
(Harlequin, AFAIR). Anyway...
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Alexander L. Belikoff
Bloomberg L.P.
abel@vallinor4.com
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