Steel Bank Common Lisp version 2.6.7

4 comments

• sroerick 4 minutes ago
  I'm going pretty deep on Lisp on accident - can anybody give me more context on this?
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  • wild_egg 2 minutes ago
    more context beyond the changelog? what would you like to know?
• wk_end 34 minutes ago

      * the SB-SIMD contrib now supports ARM64. (Thanks to Sylvia Harrington)
      * AVX512 instructions are now supported on X86-64. (Thanks to Robert Smith and Arthur Miller)
      * additional support for SIMD instructions on ARM64 and X86-64. (Thanks to Arthur Miller)
  

  These seem like pretty awesome additions. Does anyone know how SIMD works in SBCL? Is this at the codegen layer? i.e. can it auto-vectorize or anything like that? Or are these intrinsics you have to explicitly ask for?
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  • e12e 15 minutes ago
    Looks like you use it explicitly?

    https://github.com/sbcl/sbcl/tree/master/contrib/sb-simd
  • wild_egg 25 minutes ago
    No auto-vectorization yet, but you may find this illuminating: https://www.stylewarning.com/posts/nbody
• NeutralForest 21 minutes ago
  Great to see the project is still going strong, I kinda want to try CL but I always feel like I don't have a great use-case.
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  • GalaxyNova 12 minutes ago
    CL can be used pretty much anywhere nowadays, even on the web with ECL wasm compilation.
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    • NeutralForest 0 minutes ago
      I have a todo list longer than the Tour de France I want to tackle first!
• arikrahman 57 minutes ago
  Great semver number