From: lm@mcvoy.com (Larry McVoy)
Subject: [TUHS] lisp challenge
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2018 13:03:13 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180216210313.GB27574@mcvoy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180216210114.GA27574@mcvoy.com>
On Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 01:01:14PM -0800, Larry McVoy wrote:
> So people have called me on the claim that lisp is not fast. Here's a
> rebuttal.
>
> Please write a clone of GNU grep in lisp to demonstrate that the claim
> that lisp is slower that C is false.
>
> Best of luck and I'll be super impressed if you can get even remotely
> close without dropping into C or assembler. If you do get close, I
> will with draw my claim, stand corrected, point future "lisp is slow"
> people at the lisp-grep, and buy you dinner and/or drinks.
>
> --lm
And to help you, here is Mike explaining how he made GNU grep fast.
You are welcome to use the same techniques in lisp.
https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2010-August/019310.html#
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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 [this message]
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
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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