From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: krewat@kilonet.net (Arthur Krewat)
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2018 17:56:59 -0500
Subject: [TUHS] lisp challenge
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Has ANY language (except assembler) EVER outperformed C in a big way?

Give or take any optimizations that may be done by either?

On 2/16/2018 5:28 PM, Larry McVoy wrote:
> I'm no lisp expert, not by any stretch, but I've never seen a lisp
> program that out performed a well written C program.