Re: Resources to learn common lisp?

From	ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram)
Newsgroups	comp.lang.lisp
Subject	Re: Resources to learn common lisp?
Date	2026-06-13 21:25 +0000
Organization	Stefan Ram
Message-ID	<Python-20260613221523@ram.dialup.fu-berlin.de> (permalink)
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Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> wrote or quoted:
>Compilers can also do escape analysis and can often avoid
>heap-allocating short-lived objects at all.  Plus they can often unbox
>primitive-type values if the default representation is boxed.
>
>I'm pretty sure CPython has never attempted something like that.  No
>idea about PyPy or other implementations.  Python was traditionally a
>scripting wrapper around a bunch of C libraries, with pure interpreter
>performance not being that important in its own right.  Of course it has
>gradually become more important and gotten more attention.

  Well, what Python does have with regard to unboxing are array
  classes that store values unboxed. But this is more for memory
  efficiency.

  FWIW:

  CPython 3.15 is about 60 percent faster than CPython 3.10. 
  In the list of modifications below, only "Immortal Objects"
  seems to be directly related to garbage collection though.

| Python 3.11
| 
| Specializing Adaptive Interpreter   Optimizes execution by dynamically
| replacing generic bytecodes with type-specific opcodes for repetitive
| tasks.
| 
| Faster Startup   Caches code objects inside Frozen imports to skip
| standard module initialization overhead.
| 
| Cheaper Stack Frames   Minimizes memory usage and layout sizes for
| Python frame allocations.
| 
| Inlined Function Calls   Bypasses the traditional C stack overhead
| during basic internal Python function calls.
| 
| Zero-Cost Exceptions   Allocates zero runtime performance overhead to
| code executing within a try block when no exception occurs.
| 
| Python 3.12
| 
| Comprehension Inlining   List, dict, and set comprehensions are
| compiled directly inline, eliminating single-use function object
| creation overhead.
| 
| Per-Interpreter GIL   Enables isolated execution across
| sub-interpreters by equipping each with a unique Global Interpreter
| Lock (GIL).
| 
| Immortal Objects   Skips reference-count modifications for global,
| persistent runtime entities.
| 
| Eager Async Tasks   Adds asyncio.eager_task_factory() to conditionally
| bypass event-loop scheduling for a 2x to 5x performance boost.
| 
| Fast Protocol Checks   Accelerates standard isinstance() evaluations
| against runtime-checkable protocols by up to 20 times.
| 
| Python 3.13
| 
| Experimental Free-Threaded Build   Offers a specialized configuration
| to run Python with the GIL completely disabled for parallel multi-core
| scaling.
| 
| Copy-and-Patch JIT   Introduces an experimental Just-In-Time (JIT)
| compiler framework to establish future native code compilation
| pathways.
| 
| Mimalloc Integration   Adds Microsoft's high-performance memory
| allocator to optimize internal runtime threads.
| 
| Stripped Docstrings   Discards excessive indentation space within
| runtime docstrings to reduce overall .pyc memory footings.
| 
| Python 3.14
| 
| Tail-Call Interpreter   Implements a dedicated tail-call configuration
| using modern compilers to deliver 3-5% base speedups across execution
| frames.
| 
| Deferred Annotations   Postpones active evaluation of standard type
| hints until explicit runtime inspection is initiated.
| 
| Zero-Overhead Debugging   Adds a native external execution protocol to
| hook profilers without causing standard runtime delay.
| 
| Python 3.15
| 
| Lazy Imports Built-in   Provides native PEP 810 lazy imports to
| optimize initial startup speeds across heavy applications.
| 
| Tachyon High-Frequency Profiler   Features a highly optimized,
| zero-overhead statistical sampling profiler ready for active
| production instances.
| 
| Native Frame Pointers   Enables native architecture frame pointers by
| default to speed up eBPF tools and system tracing.
| 
| Upgraded JIT Pipeline   Substantially enhances the core assembly of
| the experimental JIT compilation tier.

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                Re: Resources to learn common lisp? George Neuner <gneuner2@comcast.net> - 2026-06-13 04:06 -0400
                Re: Resources to learn common lisp? Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2026-06-13 13:37 -0700
                Re: Resources to learn common lisp? ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) - 2026-06-13 21:25 +0000
                Re: Resources to learn common lisp? Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2026-06-13 15:26 -0700
                Re: Resources to learn common lisp? Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-06-14 05:37 +0000
                Re: Resources to learn common lisp? antispam@fricas.org (Waldek Hebisch) - 2026-06-15 01:34 +0000
                Re: Resources to learn common lisp? Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-06-15 05:43 +0000
                Re: Resources to learn common lisp? antispam@fricas.org (Waldek Hebisch) - 2026-06-15 11:23 +0000
                Re: Resources to learn common lisp? Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-06-16 00:23 +0000
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                Re: Resources to learn common lisp? Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-06-16 04:59 +0000
                Re: Resources to learn common lisp? tfb <no_email@invalid.invalid> - 2026-06-16 13:34 +0000
                Re: Resources to learn common lisp? tfb <no_email@invalid.invalid> - 2026-06-13 08:36 +0000
                Re: Resources to learn common lisp? Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-06-14 01:43 +0000
                Re: Resources to learn common lisp? Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2026-06-14 10:36 -0400
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                Re: Resources to learn common lisp? Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2026-06-14 18:04 -0700
                Re: Resources to learn common lisp? tfb <no_email@invalid.invalid> - 2026-06-16 12:33 +0000
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                Re: Resources to learn common lisp? Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-06-16 00:23 +0000
                Re: Resources to learn common lisp? Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2026-06-16 03:14 -0700
                Re: Resources to learn common lisp? Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2026-06-14 13:14 -0700
                Re: Resources to learn common lisp? tfb <no_email@invalid.invalid> - 2026-06-16 11:46 +0000
              Re: Resources to learn common lisp? Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2026-06-13 13:22 -0700
                Re: Resources to learn common lisp? Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-06-14 01:55 +0000
  Re: Resources to learn common lisp? tpeplt <tpeplt@gmail.com> - 2026-02-20 17:44 -0500
    Re: Resources to learn common lisp? Mario Rosell <mario@mariorosell.es> - 2026-02-21 12:30 +0100
  Re: Resources to learn common lisp? ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) - 2026-02-20 23:50 +0000
    Re: Resources to learn common lisp? ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) - 2026-02-21 00:24 +0000
      Re: Resources to learn common lisp? Andreas Eder <a_eder_muc@web.de> - 2026-02-21 11:36 +0100
      Re: Resources to learn common lisp? Mario Rosell <mario@mariorosell.es> - 2026-02-21 12:44 +0100
  Re: Resources to learn common lisp? steve g <sgonedes1977@gmail.com> - 2026-03-31 17:47 -0400
    Re: Resources to learn common lisp? Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-03-31 23:41 +0000
    Re: Resources to learn common lisp? tpeplt <tpeplt@gmail.com> - 2026-04-01 13:23 -0400
  Re: Resources to learn common lisp? Peri Didaskalou <pfd@torfree.net> - 2026-05-01 10:52 -0400
  Re: Resources to learn common lisp? Peri Didaskalou <pfd@torfree.net> - 2026-05-01 10:57 -0400
  Re: Resources to learn common lisp? Peri Didaskalou <pfd@torfree.net> - 2026-05-01 11:06 -0400
  Re: Resources to learn common lisp? steve g <sgonedes1977@gmail.com> - 2026-06-01 14:56 -0400
    Re: Resources to learn common lisp? "Robert B. Carleton" <rbc@rbcarleton.net> - 2026-06-01 23:02 +0000
      Re: Resources to learn common lisp? steve g <sgonedes1977@gmail.com> - 2026-06-02 21:32 -0400
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