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- From: schwartz@roke.cs.psu.edu (Scott Schwartz)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.scheme
- Subject: Re: Are interpreters now as fast as compiled code used to be?
- Message-ID: <BzA0Mo.II@cs.psu.edu>
- Date: 15 Dec 92 01:10:15 GMT
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- In-Reply-To: gjc@mitech.com's message of 14 Dec 92 12:14:23 GMT
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- gjc@mitech.com (George J. Carrette) writes:
- In SIOD 2.9 (this is a s-exp interpreter using lists for environment rep)
- we get a result in 0.42 seconds on the low-end VMS Alpha machine.
- (1.3 seconds on Solbourne 5E/900)
-
- With Bartlett's Scheme->C on a sparcstation 2, I get:
- 0.2 real 0.0 user 0.1 sys
-
- Of course, nothing that runs for that short a time will be a sensible
- yardstick.
-