From: toby@telegraphics.com.au (Toby Thain)
Subject: [TUHS] lisp challenge
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2018 18:18:28 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1982c016-3eb6-cadd-75e7-80d2a081ac07@telegraphics.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8a4ac448-9ed2-016a-6440-33597e36915d@kilonet.net>
On 2018-02-16 5:56 PM, Arthur Krewat wrote:
> Has ANY language (except assembler) EVER outperformed C in a big way?
>
> Give or take any optimizations that may be done by either?
>
As Tim wisely pointed out, performance isn't a property of a language,
but a program, so the idea that C is some kind of untouchable ultimate
in speed makes no sense. There are aspects of its design that militate
_against_ performance and preclude optimisations that are possible in
other languages.
Therefore nobody should be shocked that programs in other languages
certainly _have_ beaten C for the same tasks. An illuminating example is
the Haskell Mio system which has benchmarked to outperform C web
servers. Expect more progress from that direction.
--Toby
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-02-16 23:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-02-16 21:01 Larry McVoy
2018-02-16 21:03 ` Larry McVoy
2018-02-16 22:05 ` Bakul Shah
2018-02-16 22:28 ` Larry McVoy
2018-02-16 22:53 ` Donald ODona
2018-02-16 23:01 ` Arthur Krewat
2018-02-16 22:56 ` Arthur Krewat
2018-02-16 23:02 ` Larry McVoy
2018-02-16 23:18 ` Toby Thain [this message]
2018-02-16 23:41 ` Larry McVoy
2018-02-16 23:49 ` Bakul Shah
2018-02-16 23:34 ` Andy Kosela
2018-02-16 23:44 Noel Chiappa
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