From: Jason Creighton <androflux@...>
Date: 2003-09-23T17:53:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Performance: Ruby vs Java

On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 19:34:28 +0900
Lothar Scholz <mailinglists@scriptolutions.com> wrote:

> By the way. Common Lisp will not be much slower then Java, if used
> with type declarations. There is a lot of possible optimizations, but
> common lisp costs around 5000$ a license. I doubt that ruby has more
> then a handfull of users who wants to pay this.

Huh?

Perhaps there's an implementation of Common Lisp that costs $5000 a
license, but there's several free (as in speech) implementations
availible. I'm just playing around with CL, so I don't know which one is
the "best" but the one I'm using to toy around with CL is CMUCL. (Sorry,
I don't have a URL.  Google for it.)

Jason Creighton