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From: richard@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.prolog,comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Proof that Prolog can be faster than C
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Date: 13 Jun 90 21:21:18 GMT
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Reply-To: richard@aiai.UUCP (Richard Tobin)
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>This is silly! Haven't you learned yet that no language is faster/slower than
>another language - it's the implementation that's faster/slower than that
>other implementation. 

I think Peter knows all about that.  There is a widespread belief that
languages like prolog can never be as fast as languages like C
(especially for numerical applications); the figures quoted are a
counterexample to that.

I would be interested to know if there are any Lisp compilers that
can produce comparable or better results. 

-- Richard
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