Plain wrong. Christian Schafmeister will teach you the use of Lisp in high(est) end number crunching:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=8X69_42Mj-g He's the Super Brain behind all the compute stuff of that famous Genomic Reasearch Institute in NY (proteine folding ... Corona) ... ;-) In fact, he's using the AI Lisp language to compose all those mighty C/C++ libraries to new libraries. Means: His Lisp AI is (re-)writing software. I fear, you're a decade behind of what's 'state of the art' in programming! Lisp, until today, is a highly important language. It also optimizes machine code within GCC, generating highest efficient machine code for any CPU in the world - see MELT, a Lisp dialect: http://www.starynkevitch.net/Basile/gcc-melt/ Binding GSL (GNU Scientific Library) and magic OpenBLAS (searching through huge graph structures in zero time) to PicoLisp is piece of cake. https://picolisp.com/wiki/?interfacing Automated marshalling and unmarshalling C interfaces in Lisp is a nobrainer, simply extract .c header files. Finished! Have fun! Best regards, Guido Stepken Am Sonntag, 3. Mai 2020 schrieb John Duncan <duncan.j...@gmail.com>: > For heavy number crunching, picolisp might not be appropriate. In modern systems you would probably want something that used the vector instructions. But if it’s a few divisions here and there, you’d be surprised how little the efficiency in clock cycles matters anymore. > On Sun, May 3, 2020 at 14:28 Wilhelm Fitzpatrick <raf...@well.com> wrote: >> >> >> I'm not finding such a thing in the function reference, but asking on the off chance I'm >> >> overlooking it. Is there a way in Picolisp to get a division result and remainder as a single >> >> operation? >> > Sure >> > http://ix.io/2kBM >> >> Thanks! But as Alex intuited, I was looking to leverage the underlying >> processor operation that returns both parts of the integer divide in a >> single operation. But if I follow his response correctly, the cost of >> building the memory representation of the answer swamps the actual cost >> of the divide, and that's going to be similar regardless of if the >> divide and remainder wind up being one machine instruction or two. >> >> -wilhelm >> >> >> >> -- >> UNSUBSCRIBE: mailto:picolisp@software-lab.de?subject=Unsubscribe > > -- > John Duncan
