The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to comp.lang.lisp as well.
Greetings! GCL is pretty competitive with CMUCL performance-wise in my experience, and is supported on Windows. Take care, Wade Humeniuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Marc Battyani wrote: > > > Does not look very slow. > > OK those declaration are not pretty but you only need them in some parts. > > > > Well it does look slow to me. With vector based CPU instructions that > routine could be reduced to one instruction. On the vector based > machines I was familiar with (the old CYBER 205) there was a single > machine instruction to multiply a vector by a scalar. I assume the > newer x86 instructions provide something similar. Perhaps if > the Lisp vendors provided an API to embed machine instructions > directly and allow some low level access to get at the internal > representation of vectors, then this would all be academic. > > Wade > -- Camm Maguire [EMAIL PROTECTED] ========================================================================== "The earth is but one country, and mankind its citizens." -- Baha'u'llah _______________________________________________ Gcl-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gcl-devel
