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- From: damm@diku.dk (Kristian Damm Jensen)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.scheme
- Subject: Re: Are interpreters now as fast as compiled code used to be?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec15.102359.18325@odin.diku.dk>
- Date: 15 Dec 92 10:23:59 GMT
- References: <4051@mitech.com>
- Sender: damm@rimfaxe.diku.dk
- Organization: Department of Computer Science, U of Copenhagen
- Lines: 19
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- gjc@mitech.com (George J. Carrette) writes:
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- >Informal survey, how fast is your Scheme interpreter?
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- >The question is: With the latest wave of stock hardware,
- > have simple interpreters gotten as fast as
- > compilers were only a couple years ago?
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- Using chezScheme I get
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- time app age
- sparc1 0.27 sec 1989
- sun4 0.38 sec 1987
- vax780 1.16 sec 1984
- --
- Kristian Damm Jensen (damm@diku.dk)
- "Life is like a sewer - what you get out of it depends on what you put into it"
- - Tom Lehrer
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