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From: jph@suns.UMD.EDU (J. Patrick Harrington)
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Subject: Dyalog APL vs APL*PLUS UNX
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Date: 14 Mar 90 06:47:50 GMT
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    I am interested in a professional APL for a SUN workstation,
probably a Sparcstation 1. The choice seems to be between the
APL*PLUS UNX system and Dyalog APL. Has anyone run a comparison
of these two dialects? Both have nested arrays. How do they compare
in speed? Dyalog shows a benchmark comparison with APL*PLUS run on
a Compaq 386-16, where they beat APL*PLUS by a factor of 3. Is this
a valid test, and more important, what about times on SUN machines?
    These products are expensive, so I would be interested in comments
by anyone who has actually used these products on a SUN or comparable
workstation.
					
					     J. Patrick Harrington
					     jph@astro.umd.edu