Egregoros

@binkle human compilers

@hazlin the 90s were a magical time

@binkle when is this from

@binkle What are you reading? reminiscent of something I can't quite put my finger on

fascinating artifact

@binkle It was common to do this with tight loop heavy processing scenarios. I'm literally doing this right now on a homegrown Scheme system, my Scheme compiler is not fast enough so some chunks are written in a regular Pascal-like procedural language that compiles to tight machine code. The high level stuff and policy is still all written in Scheme.

@RustyCrab published Feb 1993

@pwm Assemblers And Loaders By David Salomon

@binkle its still effectively true with simd vectors being cryptic names