On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 02:02:33PM -0400, Philip Goetz wrote: > Samantha, you need to provide me with references if you want me to > believe this. No LISP compiler has ever been optimized to any serious
I've heard different. Google seems to agree somewhat: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&ct=result&cd=1&q=LISP+numerical+performance&spell=1 > degree AFAIK. The nature of the language makes it difficult to write > efficient code in the first place. And I suspect that these "many > problem domains" don't include any that involve numeric calculations. Of course you won't get the numerical libraries of Fortran... -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org";>leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?list_id=303
