"BartC" <b...@freeuk.com> writes: > "Pascal J. Bourguignon" <p...@informatimago.com> wrote in message > news:87sk0qkzhz....@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com... >> rustom <rustompm...@gmail.com> writes: > >>> Much more mainstream, C# is almost as 'managed' as dynamic languages >>> and has efficiency comparable to C. >> >> Nothing extraordinary here. Common Lisp is more efficient than C. >> http://www.lrde.epita.fr/~didier/research/verna.06.ecoop.pdf >> http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1144168 > > It seems that to make Lisp fast, you have to introduce static > typing. Which is not much different to writing in C, other than the > syntax. > >> Actually, it's hard to find a language that has no compiler generating >> faster code than C... > > But those implementers have to try very hard to beat C. Meanwhile C > can be plenty fast without doing anything special. > >> When Intel will realize that 99% of its users are running VM > > Which one?
Any implementation of a controlled environment is a virtual machine. Sometimes it is explicitely defined, such as in clisp, parot or jvm, but more often it is implicit, such as in sbcl, or worse, developed in an ad-hoc way in applications (eg. written in C++). -- __Pascal Bourguignon__ http://www.informatimago.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
