nick_barnes

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   by nick_barnes 13y ago

   I'm sure we'll be in touch. I suggest you join the mailing list, then you'll be able to track our progress (and you'll be the first to know once we have a working compiler). Do give my regards to John Reppy, who I haven't seen for about 15
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   by nick_barnes 13y ago

   The implementation has not progressed at all since 1999, when Harlequin folded. It doesn't do defunctorization, so probably can't compete with MLton on performance (but it does have an IDE including a REPL, unlike MLton). It's much closer
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   by nick_barnes 13y ago

   Indeed, LispWorks was Harlequin's first actual product, paid for itself over many years and still does today in the hands of several of the original developers who acquired it after Harlequin went bust. The next product was ScriptWorks (a
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   by nick_barnes 13y ago

   Let's get it working again and see. On the original target platforms (SPARC/Solaris, and then MIPS/Irix) it was quicker than that era's SML/NJ on our favourite benchmark (recompiling the whole of MLWorks itself), by about 25% I think. Whe