Path: news.daimi.aau.dk!news.uni-c.dk!sunic!uunet!MathWorks.Com!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!jussieu.fr!univ-lyon1.fr!swidir.switch.ch!scsing.switch.ch!news.dfn.de!news.belwue.de!news.uni-ulm.de!rz.uni-karlsruhe.de!ma2s3!haible From: haible@ma2s2.mathematik.uni-karlsruhe.de (Bruno Haible) Newsgroups: comp.lang.beta,comp.lang.lisp Subject: Re: Comparison: Beta - Lisp Date: 10 Sep 1994 21:02:25 GMT Organization: University of Karlsruhe, Germany Lines: 12 Message-ID: <34t6t1$1ep@nz12.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> References: <34n2qe$d74@nz12.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: ma2s3.mathematik.uni-karlsruhe.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Keywords: lisp, beta, mjolner Originator: haible@ma2s3 Xref: news.daimi.aau.dk comp.lang.beta:25 comp.lang.lisp:13207 Lenny Gray wrote: > > Also, I was interested in Beta until one minute ago, because of this. > Are there intrinsic reasons for this that will prevent it from ever > improving? I don't think so. If their compiler did more optimizations, the Mjolner timings certainly would be much closer to the C timings. Bruno Haible haible@ma2s2.mathematik.uni-karlsruhe.de