Subj : Re: Compiler and an interpreter
To   : comp.programming
From : Paul Dietz
Date : Mon Aug 08 2005 11:23 am

Rob Thorpe wrote:
> Jon Harrop wrote:

>>Incidentally, someone has written a Lisp implementation that is 500x slower
>>than the OCaml and almost twice as long. :-)
> 
> 
> Really, I'm not surprised it's slower, but I'm surprised it's longer.

I'm surprised it's that much slower (or, indeed, slower at all).  It must
be using a different algorithm.  And maybe he forgot to compile it?

	Paul

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