begin quoting David Brown as of Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 01:22:41PM -0800: > On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 01:20:20PM -0800, Chuck Esterbrook wrote: > > >There are plenty of fascinating fields that require performance > >including AI, games, scientific applications and simulations. You can > >use the slow languages (Python, Ruby, LISP, Smalltalk) to a certain > >degree until you start pushing parts out to C, using them only for > >glue, or simply waiting a long time to get your results. > > 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? -- One place where C will lose, perhaps, Is for small mallocs when running laps. Stewart Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-lpsg
