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cb@maths.bath.ac.UK writes:
>It still takes 13 hours to run and that's on a MIPS 3000 machine.
>How much slower is that than the C++ or C version? Timings are meaningless
>without some basis for comparison.

(Barry Margolin) writes:
>Consider why you implemented it in Lisp in the first place.  Because
>implementing complex applications like these is more feasible with
>Lisp/CLOS than most other languages.  Perhaps you might have gotten a
>program that runs twice as fast using C++,but it might have taken twice as
>long to get it working in the first place; could you have afforded to take
>that long?  (Well, you're in academia, so there may be less deadline
>pressure than in industry, so answer as if you were in industry)

Please think a little folks. If you are intending to run a program
thousands (or even hundreds of times) then taking twice as long to
write the program to produce a product twice as fast is sensible.

graham
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