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From: Yaron Minsky <yminsky@cs.cornell.edu>
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Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Ray tracer language comparison
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It seems like on the whole a more fitting riposte might have been to
provide a version of the SBCL implementation that was 8x faster than
Jon's, rather than to provide a crippled version of Jon's that was 8x
slower.  But to each his own, I suppose....

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