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As most of you know, statistics for the time it takes to run the standard
REDUCE test file (available as reduce.tst in most distributions) have been
maintained for many years.  In particular, a description of the test file
with statistics for REDUCE 3.2 was reported in Jed B. Marti and Anthony
C. Hearn, "REDUCE as a Lisp Benchmark", SIGSAM Bull. 19 (1985) 8-16.  A
table of timings for the current release is available as the "timings"
file in the REDUCE Network Library.  Until recently, the record for
running the test file, 0.97 seconds, was held by the PSL version running
on a Cray Y-MP C90 supercomputer.  In fact many machines have been
approaching the one second mark for some time now --- the Cray was the
first to break this barrier.  We now have a new record: the PSL version on
an HP 9000/735 workstation has run the test file in 0.75 seconds.  As even
faster RISC chips become available, I am confident this record will fall
below half a second within a year or so.

Tony Hearn