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Article #26486Re: Coral Lisp
From: Fred Hollander
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 1988 16:23
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 1988 16:23
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In article <9018@andante.UUCP> mailnews@andante.UUCP (Henry Kautz's mailnews program) writes: > > >More gratifying was the performance. To load our largish knowledge base, >Coral lisp took about 390 seconds on a Mac II (8MB, 80MB hard disk, >multifinder) with about 8 seconds spent GC'ing. By comparison, our >Symbolics 3670 behemoths take about 200 seconds to load the same KB. >This gives the MacII a 10 to 1 Price/Performance advantage over the >3670. > Has Coral published any official benchmarks? This initial observation is very interesting, but I'd like to see how the Mac/Coral combination compares with lisp machines in a wider variety of tests. Fred Hollander Computer Science Center Texas Instruments, Inc. holland%ti-csl@csnet-rela The above statements are my own and not representative of Texas Instruments.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!killer!pollux!ti-csl!mips!holland From: holland@mips.csc.ti.com (Fred Hollander) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Coral Lisp Message-ID: <44715@ti-csl.CSNET> Date: 17 Mar 88 16:23:33 GMT References: <9018@andante.UUCP> Sender: news@ti-csl.CSNET Reply-To: holland@mips.UUCP (Fred Hollander) Organization: TI Computer Science Center, Dallas Lines: 21