Author: Dave Gomboc
Date: 03:36:23 01/11/03
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On January 10, 2003 at 08:01:45, Dan Andersson wrote: >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 This is no big deal. FFTW (fastest fourier transform in the west) is also written in a functional language. (It generates C code.) As far as I am concerned, they might as well have written it in the functional language known as compile-time C++. ;-) Dave
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