On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 01:28:16PM -0800, SJS wrote:
Lisp is a slow language? A lot of problems are done in lisp because it's
not slow. A lot of things in Lisp that are slow algorithmically can be
rewritten, still in lips, to be faster. Some problems even run faster in
Lisp than in a language like C.
Presumably, you're comparing an optimal solution in Lisp to a naive
solution in C?
The 9-slide wasn't really what I was thinking of.
People like to think of C as being fast because it is low level, but
sometimes there are optimizations that can't be done in C because so much
aliasing happens.
David
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