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Re: Proof that Prolog can be faster than C

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From: Kevin D. Quitt
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 1990 22:31
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In article <47658@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> jwmills@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (Jonathan Mills) writes:
>but does list some other interesting results for TAK:
>
>IMPLEMENTATION            CPU             RAW TIME (sec)
>--------------            ---------       --------------
>Portable Standard Lisp    Cray-1           0.044
>Symbolics                 3600+IFU         0.43
>Assembler                 68000            0.7
>Franz Lisp                VAX 780          1.09
>Common Lisp               VAX 785          1.18
>Portable Standard Lisp    Sun/2 (68010)    1.44
>Common Lisp               VAX 780          1.83
>C                         68000            1.9
>Franz Lisp                68000            2.37
>INTERLISP                 Dolphin         11.12
>

    Just for fun, on a Motorola Delta 3608 (25MHz 68030),

cc:	gnucc:

0.6	0.15	cc tak.c
0.3	0.3	cc -O tak.c


    and on a TwinHead 386/25, Microsoft C 6.0

0.28	/Ox /Gs
0.22	/Ox /Gsr

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From: kdq@demott.COM (Kevin D. Quitt)
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Subject: Re: Proof that Prolog can be faster than C
Keywords: TAK, benchmarking
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Date: 14 Jun 90 22:31:57 GMT
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