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- Path: sparky!uunet!mitech!gjc
- From: gjc@mitech.com (George J. Carrette)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.scheme
- Subject: Re: Are interpreters now as fast as compiled code used to be?
- Message-ID: <4067@mitech.com>
- Date: 15 Dec 92 10:45:46 GMT
- References: <4051@mitech.com> <FEELEY.92Dec14215701@zohar.ai.mit.edu>
- Organization: Mitech Corporation, Concord MA
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- In article <FEELEY.92Dec14215701@zohar.ai.mit.edu>, feeley@zurich.ai.mit.edu (Marc Feeley) writes:
- > If you assume the
- > hardware's performance increases by a factor of 3 every year (which is
- > probably an underestimate right now), it shouldn't take more than 4 or
- > 5 years for the switchover to happen.
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- Factor of 3 every year is a bit high. That means a factor
- of 59049 over a decade.
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