On: Lisp as the Maxwell Equations of Software (2012)

[RodgerTheGreat]

That doesn't look like sufficient runtime code. That paper quite explicitly avoids implementing a garbage collector, among other things.

[abecedarius → RodgerTheGreat]

Here's the complete runtime of my garbage-collected self-hosting Lisp-to-C compiler: https://github.com/darius/ichbins/blob/master/ichbins.scm#L2...

(Yes, it's not the world's fastest.)

[pjmlp → RodgerTheGreat]

A simple reference counted implementation with cycle collector is not a big deal to implement, nor a substantial effort.

It might perform like a dog, but that is another matter.