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Ulrich Hobelmann  
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 More options 14 Aug 2005, 18:03
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From: Ulrich Hobelmann <u.hobelm...@web.de>
Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2005 19:03:09 +0200
Local: Sun 14 Aug 2005 18:03
Subject: Re: Very poor Lisp performance
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Jon Harrop wrote:
> What kinds of tasks is Lisp best at, in terms of performance? I Googled for
> information on this but most of the sites I found were no longer up.

Why performance at all?  Lisp is good at many things, most notably good
error recovery (interactive debugger, restarts...), but not for
high-performance computing.  There you probably want Fortran or C (and
maybe link them to Lisp).

For symbolic processing, or anything non-number-chrunchy I wouldn't be
surprised if an application written in Lisp (compiled) isn't a bit
slower than the same app written in C++ or Java.  But of course nobody
writes an app in several languages...

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I believe in Karma.  That means I can do bad things to people
all day long and I assume they deserve it.
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