From: Christian Neukirchen Date: 2006-08-02T17:43:22+09:00 Subject: Re: For performance, write it in C - Part 3, Source code now available Ola Bini writes: > Charles O Nutter wrote: >> On 8/1/06, Alex Young wrote: >>> >>> While I certainly appreciate the efforts that are going into this, I >>> can't help feeling it's all completely irrelevant. >> My only purpose in battling these benchmarks is to help dispel the >> rumors >> that "Java is slow," "VMs are slow," and so on. If Ruby does move to a real >> optimizing VM, it will be a good thing...all those folks who continue to >> think that VMs are inherently bad need to join the 21st century. >> > > ... Which is extremely funny, since Common Lisp have had wicked fast > virtual machines for the last 15 years (on par with C in performance). > > They should catch up with the 20th century first of all. =) Sorry, but which CL has a "wicked fast" *virtual machine* and is on par with C? AFAICS, they either are one or the other... -- Christian Neukirchen http://chneukirchen.org