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From: cdsm@icdoc.UUCP (Chris Moss)
Newsgroups: net.lang.prolog
Subject: Re: Turbo Prolog
Message-ID: <296@ivax.icdoc.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 10-Mar-86 08:35:06 EST
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Posted: Mon Mar 10 08:35:06 1986
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Organization: Dept. of Computing, Imperial College, London, UK.
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In article <1524@decwrl.DEC.COM> vantreeck@dec-logic.UUCP writes:
>
>A recent article in EE Times covered Borland Intl.'s
>announcement of Turbo Pascal. An incremental compiler with
                       ^^^^^^
          you mean Prolog don't you!

>a speed of 100KLIPS on an IBM PC and 300KLIPS on an IBM PC
>AT. Does anyone know what benchmark was used to obtain
>these numbers, e.g., naive_reverse? Or is this just some BS
>from Borland's marketing department? 

I gather that Turbo Prolog is basically York Prolog - (which is 
of course written in Pascal and thus doubtlessly uses Turbo Pascal).
But it's not fast. I guess they mean 100 LIPS and 300 LIPS
respectively!

--Chris Moss, Imperial College.