Lively Linear Lisp – 'Look Ma, No Garbage' (1991)
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HN comment orderA shout out for LinearML https://github.com/pikatchu/LinearML Development kinda stopped after the author joined FB. Hoping for a revival.
"Some have suggested that garbage collection not be done at all [White80] or after the program has finished [Moon84] (comment on the Boyer benchmark). Linear Lisp provides a hyper-clean environment in which garbage is never produced, and therefore garbage collection is not necessary." "However, linear logic's lack of sharing may introduce significant inefficiencies of its own." "The sharing of data structures can be efficient, because sharing can substitute for copying, but it creates ambiguity as to who is…
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| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011-05-24 | Lively Linear Lisp -- 'Look Ma, No Garbage' (1991) | gnosis | 1 | 0 |
| 2017-05-02 | Lively Linear Lisp – 'Look Ma, No Garbage' (1991)First breakout · Best thread | breck | 131 | 18 |
| 2019-07-06 | Lively Linear Lisp – 'Look Ma, No Garbage' (1992)Latest 20+ point return | tosh | 124 | 39 |