21 Jun
2021
21 Jun
'21
4:02 p.m.
On Mon, 2021-06-21 at 17:47 -0400, Rich Alderson via cctalk wrote:
Dave Card took Cray's eight favorite Fortran benchmarks and re-wrote
them in SISAL. They all ran faster.
Date: Sun, 20
Jun 2021 22:19:02 -0600From: ben via cctalk <
cctalk at classiccmp.org>
LISP still can't be compiled.
May I respectfully suggest that you don't know WTF you're talking
about?
LISP compilers have existed for decades. One of the *early* MIT AI
Lab papersby Guy Steele is a comparison of the compiler for MACLISP
(the Project MACdialect of Lisp, nothing to do with Apple computers)
with the then currentFORTRAN compiler for the PDP-10 (called "F40"),
in which the LISP compilergenerated better code than the FORTRAN
compiler.
Things have not degenerated since then.
Rich