Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!ut-sally!utah-cs!sandra From: sandra@utah-cs.UUCP (Sandra J Loosemore) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Lisp/Prolog for the 1040 Message-ID: <5364@utah-cs.UUCP> Date: 23 Mar 88 15:43:06 GMT References: <880322-062155-1500@Xerox> Organization: University of Utah CS Dept Lines: 16 In article <880322-062155-1500@Xerox>, brantly.henr@XEROX.COM writes: > There was a good review on Cambridge Lisp for the Atari in the Feb. 1987 issue > of AI EXPERT (pgs. 67 - 70). The mag did a good job of describing it's strong & > weak points, with comparisions of benchmarks, Atari vs Amiga. (Unfortunately the > Amiga (with 512k) was 2X faster running Cambridge Lisp than the Atari (with > 1meg)). It's been a while since I read this review, but I seem to remember the discrepancy being more like 20X, and the reason for it is that the person who did the timing was comparing *compiled* Lisp on the Amiga to *interpreted* Lisp on the ST. And yes, Lisp interpreters are typically at least 20 times slower than compiled Lisp, and Cambridge Lisp does offer a compiler for the ST. -Sandra Loosemore sandra@cs.utah.edu