Message from discussion Very poor Lisp performance

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From: Ulrich Hobelmann <u.hobelm...@web.de>
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Subject: Re: Very poor Lisp performance
Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2005 19:03:09 +0200
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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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