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If you're really not into computers, you might still be interested in maps , uses of willpower , actually doing things , demonstrating that you can actually do things , how you're living in a sci-fi movie , the unreasonable effectiveness of thinking in an empty room , and how, actually, cars are real estate . There is…

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An Exploration of SBCL Internals (2020)

SBCL is a Common Lisp implementation, with a performant compiler and support for a wide range of platforms. It has excellent documentation , and even a guide to internals (... this is written towards people who already know a lot about how it works though). This paper about SBCL's fairly unique build process is also…