From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2006-05-24T02:52:39+09:00
Subject: Re: Zed and Luis drop the bomb on Ruby's poor performance

Eric Hodel wrote:
> Lisp has a tiny syntax.
> Lisp has uncountable years of development.
> Lisp had lots of people who wanted it to go fast, so it goes fast.

The Lisp compiler can optimize in ways that the ruby interpreter cannot.
(Optional type declarations, for example. Also, list manipulations are
not method calls.)

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