SJS wrote: > begin quoting David Brown as of Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 01:22:41PM -0800: > >> 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 No, there are some problems where LISP can be faster, particularly because of C's memory model and such. You *could* make the C solution faster by introducing assembly, but at that point you are no longer programming in C.
--Chris -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-lpsg
