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From: gjf2a@mamba.cs.Virginia.EDU (Gabriel J. Ferrer)
Subject: Re: Q: Is Lisp obsolete?
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larso171@maroon.tc.umn.edu wrote:
: The disadvantage of Lisp is that it is slow executing, and certainly that 
: is a disadvantage in very heavy numerically computational work involved in 
: most evolutionary programming approaches.  So it seems that Lisp is not 
: well - suited for a final product.  

The slow execution speed of Lisp is due in large part to the fact that it
does run-time type checking on everything.  If you use type declarations 
combined with a good compiler, you can get speedups on Common Lisp code of
a factor of 40 or more...

--
Gabe Ferrer                       | Computer Vision Research Group
Graduate Teaching/Research Asst.  | University of Virginia Computer Science
ferrer@virginia.edu               | http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~gjf2a/
Opinions expressed herein are mine, or so I'm told... 
