From: sasaki@harvard.ARPA (Marty Sasaki)
Subject: Efficiency of LISP
Date: Sat, 2-Mar-85 13:35:17 EST [thread overview]
Date: Sat Mar 2 13:35:17 1985
Message-ID: <417@harvard.ARPA> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 306@talcott.UUCP
There was an informal experiment done in the early-mid seventies at MIT
that compared MACLISP with other programming languages. Basically a
translator was written to translate (say) FORTRAN into MACLISP. Both
versions were compiled, and the programs were run and the results
compared. The translators were simple and did no real optimizing of the
code, everything was up to the lisp compiler.
In every case the lisp versions ran faster and took up less memory. The
experiment was done on either a KA-10 or a KL-10. I remember being
amazed at the FORTRAN results. The programs being used were purely
computational ones, things like matrix handling and iterative modeling
simulations.
I don't remember much more. Could any of the principles shed further light?
--
Marty Sasaki
Havard University Science Center
sasaki@harvard.{arpa,uucp}
617-495-1270
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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 ` Marty Sasaki [this message]
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 ` Speed with numbers: PDP-10 Maclisp vs. Fortran (details) Tim Maroney
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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