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From: preston@felix.UUCP (Preston Bannister)
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Subject: Re: performance evaluation of lisp systems
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Date: 8 Mar 89 23:24:09 GMT
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From article <2960@nunki.usc.edu>, by malczews@castor.usc.edu (Frank Malczewski):
>  Except for my vague awareness of an item by Richard Gabriel called
>  Performance and Evaluation of LISP Systems (anyone have more detail on
>  this?), I am looking for information pertaining to this topic in terms of
>  overview articles of the types of benchmarks generally performed, perhaps
>  some comparisons of actual implementations, what the benchmarks try to
>  show, etc.

I picked up a copy of Gabriel's book from the local book store.  Gabriel's
book represents a fair amount of work, is probably one of the first things
you should look at.  He collected a representative set Lisp programs and ran
them on a large variety of systems.  Interesting reading.

-- Preston
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