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@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Embeddable & Hackable Lisp-2 Interpreter -## Features & Drawbacks +## Features - Lisp-2 (more like Common Lisp or Emacs Lisp) - Lexical scoping @@ -10,7 +10,6 @@ Embeddable & Hackable Lisp-2 Interpreter - Tail call optimization - Any C99 compiler should work - Depends only on C standard library -- SLOW (trade-off for simplicity) - A simple mark-sweep GC - Writing macro is easy with quasiquote, unquote, and slicing-unquote - No global state, you can run multiple interpreters in multiple threads @@ -19,6 +18,10 @@ Embeddable & Hackable Lisp-2 Interpreter - break - continue +## Drawbacks + +Bamboo Lisp is VERY SLOW tree-walking interpreter. The performance is only 1/5 to 1/10 that of Python, similar to other small interpreters like TinyScheme or very early Emacs Lisp. + ## Build Init submodule: |