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21:46:40
dthompson
Shinmera: finally read your draft ELS paper. really good stuff! your experiences match a lot of my own over in scheme land, like the basic tricks for reducing GC overhead, inlining to get more optimized linear algebra code, etc. hope the paper is accepted!
21:48:23
Colleen
<shinmera> I already got some requests for changes from the programme chair, so I'll be revising it before submission.
21:48:34
Colleen
<shinmera> My biggest issue is the related works, which I don't really know what to do with to be honest.
21:49:52
Colleen
<shinmera> It's expected to be larger, and contain references that aren't my work :)
21:50:08
Colleen
<shinmera> it *is* still an academic conference, and citing is a core part of that.
21:51:06
Colleen
<shinmera> anyway, I don't really know what to cite. This is the only game in Lisp being published, let alone being written papers about. And I don't really see how other languages, if there's papers for those, wolud matter to my work at all.
21:51:56
dthompson
Shinmera: was just about to ask about that. you mention SBCL advances several times.
21:53:53
dthompson
I am considering submitting something, but it would probably get rejected. not sure I have time to complete the paper, anyway.
21:57:34
dthompson
Shinmera: I've never submitted to an academic conference before and I don't know what the "competition" might look like.
21:58:09
Colleen
<shinmera> Eh, I wouldn't worry about it. My first paper was an ELS one, long before I wrote a thesis.
22:00:52
Bike
you can look at ELS proceedings from previous years to get an idea of what submissions look like.
22:05:59
dthompson
I don't know if my topic is "novel" enough, but I have a (nearly) working Scheme-like language that compiles to GLSL using the "compilation by program transformation" technique and has type inference.
22:20:23
Colleen
<selwyn> i have plenty to talk about but it will be tricky to construct a narrative
22:23:01
Colleen
<shinmera> As many people say, it's much harder to write little than it is to write a lot :)