On May 11, 2016, at 5:41 PM, ben <bfranc...@jetnet.ab.ca> wrote: > > On 5/11/2016 5:54 PM, Toby Thain wrote: >> On 2016-05-11 7:43 PM, Liam Proven wrote: >>> ... >>> If we'd had 4 decades of effort aimed at fast Lisp Machines, I think >>> we'd have them. >> >> Compiled Lisp, even on generic hardware, is fast. Fast enough, in fact, >> that it obviated Symbolics. (More in Richard P. Gabriel's history of >> Lucid.) See also: The newly open sourced Chez Scheme. > > But List still sequential processing as far as I can see? How do you speed > that up?
Lisp has had data structures beyond lists for decades. You don’t think a CLOS object is implemented as lists of lists of lists, do you? -- Chris