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Jon Harrop  
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 More options 14 Aug 2005, 16:38
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From: Jon Harrop <use...@jdh30.plus.com>
Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2005 16:38:55 +0100
Local: Sun 14 Aug 2005 16:38
Subject: Re: Very poor Lisp performance
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Ulrich Hobelmann wrote:
> I wouldn't consider 5 times as slow as a *functional* language very
> competitive, but it might be fast enough for many problems.

Well, it's relative. Most of the other Lisp/Scheme implementations were two
orders of magnitude slower. Stalin gets even closer than SBCL.

Also, MLton often beats g++, so functional languages aren't slow coaches any
more...

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Dr Jon D Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy
http://www.ffconsultancy.com


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