From: tim@cmu-cs-k.ARPA (Tim Maroney)
Subject: Re: Speed with numbers: PDP-10 Maclisp vs. Fortran (details)
Date: Mon, 18-Mar-85 16:24:35 EST [thread overview]
Date: Mon Mar 18 16:24:35 1985
Message-ID: <320@cmu-cs-k.ARPA> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 253@bu-cs.UUCP
Don't start acting as if I had said "Whenever it is possible to link
code from another language into a Lisp system, you should do so." I said
that if you were doing something numerically in Lisp which could be better
done by Fortran, then your Lisp system ought to make it possible to link in
the Fortran routines. Representational problems are unlikely to be serious
when you are dealing with integers and reals on the same machine! The worst
problem would be arrays, but a pair of conversion functions between the
representations should be near-trivial to write and debug, and once that is
done there is no problem.
No, I wouldn't advocate linking a SNOBOL program into one written in another
language, nor did I ever imply that I would.
-=-
Tim Maroney, Carnegie-Mellon University, Networking
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Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1985-02-14 15:59 Thus spake the DoD Frederick J Dickey
1985-02-17 1:58 ` Robert Hofkin
1985-02-17 16:36 ` g-frank
1985-02-18 5:18 ` Skef Wholey
1985-02-18 14:33 ` Chuck Hedrick
1985-02-19 19:09 ` Daniel J. Salomon
1985-02-22 2:21 ` LISP &c (re: the DoD...) Thomas M. Breuel
1985-02-25 17:08 ` Thus spake the DoD Jan Steinman
1985-02-26 23:20 ` Stanley Shebs
1985-02-27 19:22 ` Daniel J. Salomon
1985-03-01 19:30 ` Stanley Shebs
1985-03-01 20:13 ` neves
1985-03-02 4:33 ` Thomas M. Breuel
1985-03-02 18:35 ` Efficiency of LISP Marty Sasaki
1985-03-03 0:23 ` Language criticism Greg Davidson
1985-03-06 14:13 ` Thus spake the DoD geb
1985-02-28 3:16 ` David Schachter
1985-03-01 19:00 ` Stanley Shebs
1985-03-03 3:08 ` Joaquim Martillo
1985-03-03 6:12 ` T J Jardine
1985-03-05 16:55 ` Jan Steinman
1985-03-05 21:07 ` Robert A. Pease
1985-03-12 1:47 ` Ed Colbert
1985-03-13 19:35 ` Monique M Taylor
1985-03-17 19:49 ` Jan Steinman
1985-03-21 1:17 ` faustus
1985-03-12 0:25 ` Efficiency of LISP Stavros Macrakis
1985-03-12 2:11 ` Efficiency of numerical Lisp code (details) Stavros Macrakis
1985-03-13 7:05 ` Chuck Hedrick
1985-03-13 20:00 ` Speed with numbers: PDP-10 Maclisp vs. Fortran (details) Stavros Macrakis
1985-03-14 10:12 ` Tim Maroney
1985-03-15 0:27 ` Bill Henneman
1985-03-16 0:59 ` Tim Maroney
1985-03-17 18:58 ` Bill Henneman
1985-03-18 5:02 ` Multi-language systems Marty Sasaki
1985-03-20 17:01 ` Tom Slack
1985-03-18 21:24 ` Tim Maroney [this message]
1985-03-19 6:45 ` Fortran better than Lisp for numerical code? Barry Margolin
1985-03-19 17:35 ` Speed of Lisp numerical code Stavros Macrakis
1985-03-20 21:04 ` Fortran better than Lisp for numerical code? T J Jardine
1985-03-22 2:10 ` Joe Orost
1985-03-19 16:15 ` Speed with numbers: PDP-10 Maclisp vs. Fortran (details) Bill Henneman
1985-03-19 3:40 ` Norman Diamond
1985-03-18 3:01 ` Common Lisp and Arrays Joaquim Martillo
1985-02-18 23:49 ` Thus spake the DoD M.Fischer
1985-03-14 20:50 ` Speed with numbers: PDP-10 Maclisp vs. Fortran (details) Stavros Macrakis
1985-03-15 15:42 ` Stanley Shebs
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