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From: espen@math.uio.no (Espen J. Vestre)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Subject: Re: Looking for KCL on MIPS & AKCL.
Message-ID: <1990Oct31.155432.16911@ulrik.uio.no>
Date: 31 Oct 90 15:54:32 GMT
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Just curious:
Are there any people using AKCL for serious purposes?  I just find it 
funny that people are asking for AKCL on all these fancy machines - the 
cost of one of the fine commercial lisps is probably usually minor 
compared to the hardware costs involved.
It's not that I don't like pd programs, it's just that I tried a small 
program I have that does some runtime compiling when loading, and I found 
out that the the AKCL compiler is several times slower on a decstation 
3100 than the MACL compiler on the tiny-and-usually-regarded-a-toy 
Macintosh SE!! (hw+sw costs about $2000...)
It must be a pain to develop software with it.

(I must admit that the code produced seems reasonably fast, however)

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Espen J. Vestre                 
Department of Mathematics
University of Oslo
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