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		sklogic on July 18, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Designing a Programming Language The biggest gain of the tracing JITs is elimination of dynamic dispatch. CL does not use it to an extend comparable to JavaScript, Python or Smalltalk.

_19qg on July 22, 2015 [–]

That depends largely on the implementation and libraries. Some make extensive use of CLOS in I/O for example.

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