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Didier Verna (deservedly) won best paper by presenting his benchmarks on how Lisp and C are of equivalent speed in single-pixel image processing algorithms.

We could have used another half day, the workshop was a bit rushed.

The Lisp hardware breakout group decided to do a VHDL implementation of the CADR. Hans Hübner was never seen without his logic board for the rest of the time.

Christophe did one of his “implement cool gui stuff in a few lines of McCLIM” demos.

The second day was spent hacking, and doing touristy things in Nantes. I finally finished the port of cl-muproc to OpenMCL.

eclm2006 dinner

Originally uploaded by rudis.

First thought: wow, there’s no way I’ll be able to talk to even a tenth of the people here! We filled a (very nice) restaurant to the last table; the photo really doesn’t do the crowd justice.

I ended up on a table with Christophe so I could watch all the people being astonished that he doesn’t look terrifying in person.

Tomorrow will bring this year’s discussion of sbcl streams – but this time with Nikodemus, so there’s a good chance things will actually be implemented.

ecl is an implementation of Common Lisp that is designed to be easily embedded.  It compiles to byte-code or to native code via gcc.

In a post to the mailing list, Dustin Long announced that he successfully embedded ecl in Visual Basic and wrote a detailed document about the process:

http://www.cs.stevens.edu/~dlong/vbecl/

This part of the credits made me smile:

Also, the writings of Jamie Zawinski, Paul Graham, and the c2.com wiki. If it weren’t for reading all of these, I wouldn’t have gotten interested in using Common Lisp in the first place.

[tags]Lisp, Common Lisp[/tags]