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Matthias Buelow  
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 More options 14 Aug 2005, 22:23
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From: Matthias Buelow <m...@incubus.de>
Date: 14 Aug 2005 21:23:38 GMT
Local: Sun 14 Aug 2005 22:23
Subject: Re: Very poor Lisp performance
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Ulrich Hobelmann <u.hobelm...@web.de> wrote:
>I wouldn't consider 5 times as slow as a *functional* language very
>competitive, but it might be fast enough for many problems.

For a runtime typed language vs. a statically typed one it is quite
competitive. Generally, the compiler can never resolve all the runtime
typing at compile time, unless you declare all and everything in your
program (which would be nothing but a major PITA).

mkb.


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