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From: fjh@munta.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Fergus Henderson)
Subject: Re: speed of prolog
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Date: Thu, 18 May 1995 18:12:41 GMT
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Don_Ferguson@notes.pw.com (Don Ferguson) writes:

>nelsonb@mathcs.carleton.edu writes:
>
>>I have heard that prolog is fast.  Is this true?  If it is, why?  Thanks.
>
>That's odd.  I'm always hearing that Prolog is slow, although I know better.

Really?

>Of course, the language is neither slow nor fast - speed is an implementation 
>issue.

Speed is an economic issue.  The choice of language greatly affects the
economics of producing efficient code.  If efficiency is very important
to your project, Prolog is not likely to be a good choice.

>Good Prolog compilers generate very fast code. 

Name two.

-- 
Fergus Henderson                       | I'll forgive even GNU emacs as
fjh@cs.mu.oz.au                        | long as gcc is available ;-)
http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/~fjh            |             - Linus Torvalds
