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lispm 4 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: GIL Become Optional in Python 3.13

COMPILE is AOT, not JIT. Typical Lisp compilers will not dynamically optimize code based on runtime performance metering.

pjmlp 4 months ago [–]

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-in-time_compilation

"The earliest published JIT compiler is generally attributed to work on LISP by John McCarthy in 1960"

I can naturally also go hunthing for those papers from my digital cellar.

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