Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!ut-emx!ccwf.cc.utexas.edu From: scheng@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (David Boles) Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Subject: Re: So who's really using LISP? Message-ID: <44103@ut-emx.uucp> Date: 12 Feb 91 23:25:27 GMT References: <1227@culhua.prg.ox.ac.uk> <1991Feb11.204514.19880@Neon.Stanford.EDU> Sender: news@ut-emx.uucp Reply-To: scheng@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (David Boles) Distribution: comp Organization: The University of Texas at Austin Lines: 12 In article jinx@zurich.ai.mit.edu writes: >In other words, richer languages don't necessarily mean slower or >worse languages, while it seems that richer instruction sets mean >slower machines. Not necessarily, the IBM RIOS processor delivers more performance per Hz than any other processor used in a box and it has more than 180 instructions. RISC indeed :) -- David Boles apas611@hermes.chpc.utexas.edu