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Article #1545Re: Efficiency
From: Michael Covington
Date: Mon, 05 Oct 1992 15:11
Date: Mon, 05 Oct 1992 15:11
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In article <1992Oct5.102142.16636@ecrc.de> micha@ecrc.de writes: >In article 28120@athena.cs.uga.edu, mcovingt@aisun3.ai.uga.edu (Michael Covington) writes: >> other language. We once ported a simple Prolog list processing >> routine into Pascal as a test, and got a factor-of-14 *slowdown*!) > >It is nice that People really do believe in Prolog, but there must be a mistake here. >...You must have dome something funny in your Pascal translation, or it was >a very slow Pascal. It was the speed of "new" and "dispose" in Pascal versus the much faster dynamic memory allocation in Prolog. -- :- Michael A. Covington internet mcovingt@uga.cc.uga.edu :- Artificial Intelligence Programs phone 706 542-0359 :- The University of Georgia fax 706 542-0349 :- Athens, Georgia 30602 U.S.A. amateur radio N4TMI
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!sun-barr!olivea!spool.mu.edu!wupost!emory!athena.cs.uga.edu!aisun3.ai.uga.edu!mcovingt From: mcovingt@aisun3.ai.uga.edu (Michael Covington) Newsgroups: comp.lang.prolog Subject: Re: Efficiency Message-ID: <1992Oct5.151159.29185@athena.cs.uga.edu> Date: 5 Oct 92 15:11:59 GMT References: <1992Oct5.032836.28120@athena.cs.uga.edu> <1992Oct5.102142.16636@ecrc.de> Sender: news@athena.cs.uga.edu Organization: AI Program, University of Georgia, Athens Lines: 18