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Subject: Re: Can a Programming Language Cause Engines to be Slow?

Author: Vincent Diepeveen

Date: 17:14:11 11/14/02

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On November 14, 2002 at 13:12:38, Dan Andersson wrote:

>There are hideously slow implementations of some languages. But an interpreter
>should never be more than a ballpark ten times slower than a compiler. If one
>gets 1000 times the speedup by changing language or implementation something is
>seriously broken. Gopher I believe was never implemented seriously. Haskell has
>the same problems, but GHC is reasonably fast. And mature functional languages
>are *not* slow. O'Caml and Scheme have seriously good compilers.
>
>MvH Dan Andersson

Suppose you are the compiler guy. How do you optimize lazy generated
move lists?

*not*

• Re: Can a Programming Language Cause Engines to be Slow? Dan Andersson 20:35:14 11/14/02
  • Re: Can a Programming Language Cause Engines to be Slow? Vincent Diepeveen 15:07:52 11/15/02
    • Re: Can a Programming Language Cause Engines to be Slow? Eugene Nalimov 18:09:49 11/15/02
      • OT OT OT !!!! Bob Durrett 18:37:04 11/15/02

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