[LLVMdev] 2.2 garbage collector questions

Scott Michel
Wed, 06 Feb 2008 01:28:37 -0000

thomas weidner wrote:
> interesting, what makes lisp superior in this area over languages with
explicit
> support for parallell computing (like erlang? or Ada) or languages which
may be
> easier auto parallelized (like haskell because of its functional nature).

I almost forgot: there was a huge body of work from the 80's on high
performance and parallel Lisps. Lisp was the preferred system
programming language for the Connection Machine (CM Lisp.)


-scooter