From: Robert Klemme <bob.news@...>
Date: 2003-09-23T20:33:29+09:00
Subject: Re: Performance: Ruby vs Java


"Lothar Scholz" <mailinglists@scriptolutions.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:41137062.20020219123425@scriptolutions.com...
> 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.

Lisp can even be faster than Java:
http://www.flownet.com/gat/papers/lisp-java.pdf

The article about the original study - if you're an ACM member
http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=317683&coll=portal&dl=ACM&CFID=12344240&CFTOKEN=52361301

Regards

    robert