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- You misunderstood my message. Prolog-in-Lisp really isn't under
- examination: the only reason I brought it up was that it provided the
- original motivation for the experiment (I wanted to determine a limit on the
- speed I could expect out of my Prolog, reasoning that it could not possibly
- be faster than native-coded Lisp.)
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- The rest of your letter is essentially correct: the figures imply
- that CProlog is at least as fast as Franz, since the relevant test is
- interpreted code in each language (i.e., the first set of figures).
- However, this should not imply that I believe that Prolog is a "better"
- language than Lisp (I don't want to get into *that* debate), or imply
- that Lisp has no advantages over Prolog. Lisp may have real advantages over
- Prolog, but there is no reason to believe that speed is one of them.
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- Rick.
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