From: Thomas Fischbacher <Thomas.Fischbacher@Physik.Uni-Muenchen.DE>
To: Yaron Minsky <yminsky@cs.cornell.edu>
Cc: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Ray tracer language comparison
Date: Sun, 9 Oct 2005 15:59:27 +0200 (CEST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0510091434090.22631@eiger.cip.physik.uni-muenchen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <891bd3390510090424g4a88053eg5a890e83ed701d4b@mail.gmail.com>
On Sun, 9 Oct 2005, Yaron Minsky wrote:
> 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....
What? You call that elegant use of higher order functions "crippled"?
What a Blasphemy. I am really, truly outraged.
...on the other hand...
[wicked thinking]
[most evil sniggering]
[pictures of the great evil genius playing the organ]
[more of all the above]
[ *clickediclick* ]
Bring that man to be, he shalt be served as well!
I just extended my analysis by another implementation in yet another
language. This time, it's "Steel Bank Common Lisp". As this is a Lisp as
well, I will be concerned primarily with comparing it against SBCL, but it
may also be nice to compare it with OCaml, or Objective Caml.
There it is:
http://www.cip.physik.uni-muenchen.de/~tf/raytracer/#sbcl
--
regards, tf@cip.physik.uni-muenchen.de (o_
Thomas Fischbacher - http://www.cip.physik.uni-muenchen.de/~tf //\
(lambda (n) ((lambda (p q r) (p p q r)) (lambda (g x y) V_/_
(if (= x 0) y (g g (- x 1) (* x y)))) n 1)) (Debian GNU)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-10-09 13:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-10-03 23:18 Jon Harrop
2005-10-04 13:49 ` [Caml-list] " Thomas Fischbacher
2005-10-09 5:26 ` Thomas Fischbacher
2005-10-09 11:24 ` Yaron Minsky
2005-10-09 13:59 ` Thomas Fischbacher [this message]
2005-10-09 17:37 ` Florian Weimer
2005-10-09 18:07 ` Thomas Fischbacher
2005-10-09 14:53 ` Vincenzo Ciancia
2005-10-09 10:19 ` [Caml-list] " Gerd Stolpmann
2005-10-09 11:26 ` sejourne_kevin
2005-10-09 14:58 ` [Caml-list] " Jon Harrop
2005-10-09 17:25 ` Thomas Fischbacher
2005-10-09 14:38 yoann padioleau
2005-10-09 16:00 ` Chris Campbell
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