Re: Just how fast is LISP?

tmb@ai.mit.edu (Thomas M. Breuel)
21 Nov 91 01:05:44 GMT

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Newsgroups: comp.compilers
From: tmb@ai.mit.edu (Thomas M. Breuel)
Keywords: Lisp, performance
Organization: MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab
References: 91-11-072 91-11-080
Date: 21 Nov 91 01:05:44 GMT

In article 91-11-080 pschmidt@convex.com (Perry Schmidt) writes:


      Question: As I said, I've seen many claims about LISP being as fast as C.
      Got any proof?


Many people, including myself, have written numerical CommonLisp code
that runs just as fast as equivalent C code. It is rather tedious to
divine the necessary declarations for any particular implementation of
CommonLisp, and the optimal declarations differ from implementation to
implementation, but it is certainly possible to do so.


Thomas.
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