On Mon, 2021-06-21 at 17:47 -0400, Rich Alderson via cctalk wrote: > > Date: Sun, 20 Jun 2021 22:19:02 -0600From: ben via cctalk < > > cctalk@classiccmp.org> > > LISP still can't be compiled. > > May I respectfully suggest that you don't know WTF you're talking > about? > LISP compilers have existed for decades. One of the *early* MIT AI > Lab papersby Guy Steele is a comparison of the compiler for MACLISP > (the Project MACdialect of Lisp, nothing to do with Apple computers) > with the then currentFORTRAN compiler for the PDP-10 (called "F40"), > in which the LISP compilergenerated better code than the FORTRAN > compiler. > Things have not degenerated since then.
Dave Card took Cray's eight favorite Fortran benchmarks and re-wrote them in SISAL. They all ran faster. > Rich
