Re: Lisp/Prolog for the 1040

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From: Sandra J Loosemore
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 1988 15:43

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In article <880322-062155-1500@Xerox>, brantly.henr@XEROX.COM writes:
> There was a good review on Cambridge Lisp for the Atari in the Feb. 1987 issue
> of AI EXPERT (pgs. 67 - 70). The mag did a good job of describing it's strong &
> weak points, with comparisions of benchmarks, Atari vs Amiga. (Unfortunately the
> Amiga (with 512k) was 2X faster running Cambridge Lisp than the Atari (with
> 1meg)).

It's been a while since I read this review, but I seem to remember the
discrepancy being more like 20X, and the reason for it is that the person
who did the timing was comparing *compiled* Lisp on the Amiga to
*interpreted* Lisp on the ST.  And yes, Lisp interpreters are typically
at least 20 times slower than compiled Lisp, and Cambridge Lisp does
offer a compiler for the ST.

-Sandra Loosemore
sandra@cs.utah.edu

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From: sandra@utah-cs.UUCP (Sandra J Loosemore)
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Subject: Re: Lisp/Prolog for the 1040
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Date: 23 Mar 88 15:43:06 GMT
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