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		drekipus on Jan 30, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A Tour of the Lisps I tried Hy for 2023 AoC and loved it, but it broke after day 8 because the solution I wrote crashed after 40mins. but re writing the same logic in python took 2 mins to complete. Hy is nice, but "compiling to python" isn't

nerdponx on Jan 30, 2024 [–]

That's a new one to me, I've never had a Hy program perform substantially worse than the equivalent Python. I'm curious what the offending code was!

drekipus on Jan 30, 2024 | [–]

I think from memory it was to do with recursion (ie: stack overflow error) from having a few too many nested `lfor`s

I'll try and find it

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