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From: Matthias Buelow <m...@incubus.de>
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Subject: Re: Very poor Lisp performance
Date: 14 Aug 2005 21:23:38 GMT
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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.