[armedbear-devel] Performance of ABCL?

[Tobias C. Rittweiler]

Žiga Lenarčič writes:

> My question is, is performance ever increase dramatically (perhaps  
> with java 7?) or is ABCL inherently slower because of the JVM?  

Yes, Java7 and invokedynamic coupled with type inference in ABCL's
compiler should lead to a great improvement from my understanding at
least.

But the changes needed would be quite substantive so I wouldn't count on
it unless there's money behind it.


> Clojure performs better than ABCL usually and is also running on JVM.  
> I don't know about KAWA. Is JVM bytecode not flexible enough to  
> perhaps reuse some compilation techniques of native compilers (CCL,  
> SBCL) ?

Notice that ABCL is very young, and, from what I know, Clojure has one
person (the original author even!) work on it full-time.

  -T.