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From: mfi@beach.cis.ufl.edu (Mark Interrante)
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Subject: Re: Coral Lisp
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Date: 15 Mar 88 13:49:01 GMT
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In article <9019@andante.UUCP> mailnews@andante.UUCP (Henry Kautz's mailnews program) writes:

>I just ported a substantial piece of software which implements a knowledge
>representation system to Allegro Common Lisp, implemented by Coral Software
>of Cambridge Mass.
>
>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.

Could you please comment on the relative performance of the systems
running (after they have loaded.)?


Mark Interrante                                               CIS Department
                                                       University of Florida
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