From: Ray Dillinger
Subject: Re: How much tuning does regular lisp compilers do?
Date: 
Message-ID: <48bd5b7f$0$17186$742ec2ed@news.sonic.net>
Andreas Davour wrote:

> 
> I've just spent three days in a application tuning seminar, learning
> everything about cache lines, cache hits, inlining functions, unrolling
> loops, openMP and more of that kind of techniques. If I didn't like
> Fortran almost as much as Lisp, it might had been tiring.
> 
> This got me wondering. How much of these kind of tools for optimizing
> code is implemented in the popular lisp compilers? What compiler is best
> at it? Worst? What can be improved?
> 

Stalin is a compiler for the scheme dialect that is absolutely amazing 
in terms of optimizing for speed.  It does all of these things and much 
much more.  But it takes forever to compile stuff, and it's a much smaller
lisp than Common Lisp. 

                                Bear