Re: SBCL is now faster than Java, as fast as Ocaml, and getting better

Javier wrote:
But, in general, if you only count the number of lines, Lisp is
usually shorter.

Actually Lisp is almost always longer by any reasonable metric including
LOC. I went out of my way to measure the verbosity of Lisp on the ray
tracer benchmark:

http://www.ffconsultancy.com/languages/ray_tracer/results.html

Lisp is among the most verbose languages both by LOC and non-whitespace
bytes.

Also, in big applications, defmacro and functional programming allow
us to reduce complexity and size.

Macros without basic features means that Lisp projects have a considerable
constant overhead of boiler plate code spent Greenspunning features like
pattern matchers.

--
Dr Jon D Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy
http://www.ffconsultancy.com/products/?u
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