Author: Dan Andersson
Date: 05:01:45 01/10/03
A couple of postings on comp.lang.scheme implemented the CoyoteGulch benchmarks in Scheme. And lo and behold BigLoo produced faster code for the numerical benchmark. One might object that since BigLoo emits C or Java bytecode it isn't really faster. But the amount of automated program transformations that are applied is huge. For a coder to do the same thing would be like trying to outperform a spreadsheet. And the C code is inhuman in nature. And the question arises: Why on earth would one use C++ or Java? Both are verbose and terribly low level compared to lambda calculus. MvH Dan Andersson
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