Newsgroups: comp.lang.beta,comp.lang.lisp Path: news.daimi.aau.dk!news.uni-c.dk!sunic!trane.uninett.no!nntp.uio.no!nac.no!eunet.no!nuug!EU.net!uknet!festival!edcogsci!jeff From: jeff@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Jeff Dalton) Subject: Re: Comparison: Beta - Lisp Message-ID: Sender: usenet@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (C News Software) Nntp-Posting-Host: bute.aiai.ed.ac.uk Organization: AIAI, University of Edinburgh, Scotland References: <34t6t1$1ep@nz12.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> Date: Tue, 13 Sep 1994 19:13:08 GMT Lines: 14 Xref: news.daimi.aau.dk comp.lang.beta:36 comp.lang.lisp:13262 In article schwartz@roke.cse.psu.edu (Scott Schwartz) writes: >haible@ma2s2.mathematik.uni-karlsruhe.de (Bruno Haible) writes: > Lenny Gray wrote: > > Also, I was interested in Beta until one minute ago, because of this. > > If their compiler did more optimizations, the Mjolner > timings certainly would be much closer to the C timings. > >Contrast with the strategy of the Sather group: their compiler started >out by doing better than C++ on some microbenchmarks. That's what it >takes to win supporters in real life. There was a Prolog a while back that did better than C for some numeric stuff. Did this win wupporters? Nooooooooooo...