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- From: cracauer@wavehh.hanse.de (Martin Cracauer)
- Subject: Re: Lisp-Performance: better on SPARC or DEC ?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec14.133249.4194@wavehh.hanse.de>
- Organization: Private UUCP, Martin Cracauer, Norderstedt, Germany
- References: <Bz422D.n2J.1@cs.cmu.edu>
- Date: Mon, 14 Dec 92 13:32:49 GMT
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- sef@sef1.slisp.cs.cmu.edu writes:
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- > From: cracauer@wavehh.hanse.de (Martin Cracauer)
- >
- > I wonder, if someone got benchmark results for lisp (cmu-lisp
- > preferred) comparing the various SPARC- und DECstations (and perhaps
- > HP 9000/700).
- >
- >I think my wizards may have some comparative performance numbers for CMU CL
- >hidden away, but if you're asking for the obvious reason (deciding what
- >machine to use), the speed numbers probably don't matter. CMU Common Lisp
- >is not yet available for the HP 9000/700. On the Decstations, it runs only
- >under Mach or OSF/1, not Ultrix. So the SPARC implementation is pretty
- >much the only choice for outside (non-Mach) users at the moment.
-
- All true, but:
-
- If the HP is marked as a machine with excellent price-performance, I
- would buy a commercial lisp for it. So I asked 'cmu-cl preferred' (but
- not required).
-
- The question on SPARC and MIPS R3000 is: What are the effects of the
- better caches of the MIPS (DEC) and the windowed registers of the
- SPARCS when using lisp. I cannot get these numbers from dhrystones.
-
- The machine will be used for LISP only, so I could use Mach (as I
- know, it is free) or OFS/1 on the DEC machine without missing any
- other features of Ultrix. Again, I could buy a commercial lisp.
-
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