Re:Slashdot discovers Lisp
by anamax on Tuesday May 26, 2009 @01:02AM
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Why?
He's correct. Given enough time, he probably can recreate any lisp program with a faster C program. A good assembly language person can do better still.
However, if we're looking at the total time to running said program 1000 or even 1 million times, he's likely to lose.
While he's recreating a given program, the lisp programmer has produced N more programs. He'll never keep up.
He's correct. Given enough time, he probably can recreate any lisp program with a faster C program. A good assembly language person can do better still.
However, if we're looking at the total time to running said program 1000 or even 1 million times, he's likely to lose.
While he's recreating a given program, the lisp programmer has produced N more programs. He'll never keep up.