Re: Bogus! (was Re: Proof that Prolog can be faster than C)

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From: Vinod Grover
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 1990 01:09

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In article <37011@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> vanroy@pisces (Peter Van Roy) writes:
>Please do not jump to conclusions.  The Prolog implementation does *NOT* save
>intermediate results from tak(a,b,c).  It is doing *ALL* recursive calls.
>(I wish the compiler were intelligent enough to do what you say it does :-).
>The speed is due to straightforward compiler optimization.  By the way, the

Could you tell us what optimization is being performed that is lacking in C?

Thanks

Vinod Grover

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