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

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