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From: "Förster vom Silberwald" <chain_l...@hotmail.com>

Date: 15 Aug 2005 04:32:06 -0700

Local: Mon 15 Aug 2005 12:32

Subject: Re: Ray tracer in Stalin

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Jens Axel Søgaard wrote:
> Jon Harrop wrote:

> > I hadn't expected a simple Lisp or Scheme implementation to be able to
> > compete in terms of performance but only 70% slower on 32-bit AMD64 when
> > C++ and OCaml are fully 64-bit is very impressive, IMHO.

> It is also worth noting the Stalin code has no type declarations.

There is one bug which hit me: Stalin takes a rather, rather long time
for compiling. Maybe this issue has changed in the meantime. I once
used Stalin on my old laptop under SuSE Linux 8.0 and every program
took at least 33 seconds when compiling. That was rather tedious; at
least for smaller programs.

Schneewittchen

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