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From: ee178acb@sdcc7.UUCP (DARIN JOHNSON)
Newsgroups: net.lang.lisp
Subject: Re: Vax/VMS Common Lisp : Version 1.1
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Date: Wed, 9-Oct-85 23:33:10 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct  9 23:33:10 1985
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Due to the method of shareable images in VMS, I would wager that 
with 30 people all doing LISP on a VAX 11/780, the VMS users would
have a smaller drop-off in system performance, than a similar Franz
environment.  I admit, at the moment LISP is quite slow on VMS,
however, DEC is known to greatly improve products in later versions.

(reminds me of someone who used VAX/Ada, and examined the MACRO
  listings that were produced.  The Ada system was a pre-release
  version.  The user instantly decided his PL/1 programs were
  infinately superior to Ada because "Ada doesn't do any
  optimization!"  {I should mention, he was comparing simple PL/1
  programs with Ada programs that used generic functions, etc...})


Darin Johnson