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From: dlt@csun.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: TML vs LSP
Message-ID: <527@csun.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 28-Jan-87 18:03:06 EST
Article-I.D.: csun.527
Posted: Wed Jan 28 18:03:06 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 30-Jan-87 04:40:28 EST
Organization: California State University, Northridge
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Keywords: Pascal

Because I like the Lightspeed C environment so well, I decided to 
purchase Lightspeed Pascal.  While the two environments are
similar, I wish they would have done more things the same way.  But
what *really* bothers me is the seemingly slow performance of LSP
in comparison with TML (v1.11).  I ported some existing trivial appli-
cations like the sieve "benchmark", a towers of hanoi program, and
an eight queens program.  The sieve program runs fairly well but 
the queens program takes significantly longer to find all (92) 
solutions than does TML (TML=11 seconds (with printing) vs LSP 2.5-3 
*minutes* (without printing)).  The source code in both cases is 
identical.  The LSP compile options (D, N, V, & R) are turned off.  
Why is LSP so slow?

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Dave Thompson		     uucp:   {ihnp4|hplabs|psivax}!csun!dlt
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