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From: jeff@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Jeff Dalton)
Subject: Re: Comparison: Beta - Lisp
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In article <SCHWARTZ.94Sep10180517@roke.cse.psu.edu> schwartz@roke.cse.psu.edu (Scott Schwartz) writes:
>haible@ma2s2.mathematik.uni-karlsruhe.de (Bruno Haible) writes:
>   Lenny Gray <lenngray@netcom.com> wrote:
>   > Also, I was interested in Beta until one minute ago, because of this.
>
>   If their compiler did more optimizations, the Mjolner
>   timings certainly would be much closer to the C timings.
>
>Contrast with the strategy of the Sather group: their compiler started
>out by doing better than C++ on some microbenchmarks.  That's what it
>takes to win supporters in real life.

There was a Prolog a while back that did better than C for some
numeric stuff.  Did this win wupporters?  Nooooooooooo... 
