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From: holland@mips.csc.ti.com (Fred Hollander)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Coral Lisp
Message-ID: <44715@ti-csl.CSNET>
Date: 17 Mar 88 16:23:33 GMT
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In article <9018@andante.UUCP> mailnews@andante.UUCP (Henry Kautz's mailnews program) writes:
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>More gratifying was the performance. To load our largish knowledge base,
>Coral lisp took about 390 seconds on a Mac II (8MB, 80MB hard disk, 
>multifinder) with about 8 seconds spent GC'ing. By comparison, our 
>Symbolics 3670 behemoths take about 200 seconds to load the same KB. 
>This gives the MacII a 10 to 1 Price/Performance advantage over the 
>3670.
>

Has Coral published any official benchmarks?  This initial observation is very
interesting, but I'd like to see how the Mac/Coral combination compares with 
lisp machines in a wider variety of tests.


Fred Hollander
Computer Science Center
Texas Instruments, Inc.
holland%ti-csl@csnet-rela

The above statements are my own and not representative of Texas Instruments.