We'll meet in the Matador in Redmond, in the back room, at 7 PM.



http://matadorseattle.com/location/redmond/



This will be in a bar with food, so you can buy your own drinks and food. But if you want to eat or drink a lot, come early: at some point we'll move to a quieter space nearby for the following talk.



JIT Compilation of Symbolic Functions

Robert Smith will talk about using unique features of Common Lisp to quickly build applications which can dynamically generate and optimize machine code "just-in-time" (JIT), which is especially useful for scientific applications. With large advances in hardware in recent decades, it has become a practical thing to do. The focus will be on where JIT compilation is applicable and how to use it in real applications as opposed to the design and implementation of JIT compilers themselves.