Re: Lisp in hardware

From: Edi Weitz (spamtrap_at_agharta.de)
Date: 08/09/04 

Date: Mon, 09 Aug 2004 19:32:38 +0200

On 9 Aug 2004 17:00:44 GMT, Alexander Burger <abu@software-lab.de> wrote:

> please show me a Lisp interpreter faster than Pico Lisp

If I do this

  (de fac (n) (if (= n 0) 1 (* n (fac (- n 1)))))

in PicoLisp 2.0.13 and then evaluate (fac 5000) it takes about 15
seconds on my laptop.

With CLISP 2.33.2 and

  (defun fac (n) (if (= n 0) 1 (* n (fac (- n 1)))))

(fac 5000) needs less than 0.3 seconds without compiling the function.

Edi. 

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