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Jon Harrop  
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 More options 15 Aug 2005, 00:42
Newsgroups: comp.lang.scheme
From: Jon Harrop <use...@jdh30.plus.com>
Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 00:42:06 +0100
Local: Mon 15 Aug 2005 00:42
Subject: Re: Ray tracer in Stalin

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.

Well, it uses "vec" and "list" but I'm not sure what you'd call a type
declaration.

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Dr Jon D Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy
http://www.ffconsultancy.com


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