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From: frobozz@well.UUCP (Jordan Bortz)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.smalltalk
Subject: Re: PP ST-80 vs. Common Lisp
Message-ID: <14105@well.UUCP>
Date: 14 Oct 89 17:21:54 GMT
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rehbold@uklirb.UUCP (Robert Rehbold) writes:

>Hello everybody,

>I've got a question: Is Smalltalk-80 faster or slower than Lisp?

>We've implemented systems in ParcPlace ST80 V2.3; and we've implemented
>systems in Lucid Common Lisp, both on SUN 3/60, and still aren't sure
>which language to favour....

It seems that a general benchmark suite needs to be developed to benchmark
Smalltalk against languages like LISP, as well as more efficient languages
like C. 

It seems to me that the benchmarks should make use of recursion, dynamic message
lookup, list-structure manipulation, array manipulation, string manipulation,
floating-point, small integer arithmetic, large integer arithmetic, and general
computation....

Has anyone developed such benchmarks for C/Lisp/Smalltalk?

	Jordan