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Re: Very poor Lisp performance

Ulrich Hobelmann <u.hobelm...@web.de>

Jon Harrop wrote:
> On my 1.8GHz AMD64 in 32-bit mode with SBCL 0.9.3 I'm now getting:

>     5.21 seconds of real time
>     4.15 seconds of user run time
>     0.62 seconds of system run time
>     0 page faults and
>     509,569,248 bytes consed

> This seems to be on-par with other people's observations.

> This compares to 1.037s for OCaml and 0.987s for C++, so SBCL is now much
> more competitive.

I wouldn't consider 5 times as slow as a *functional* language very
competitive, but it might be fast enough for many problems.

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