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Xurinos on Feb 18, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Is Scheme Faster than C?

Correct me if I am wrong, but somewhere I read that a while back, Lisp implementations caught up to and surpassed Fortran implementations in terms of math speed... suggesting that Fortran's main strength was finally outdone.

sedachv on Feb 18, 2011 [–]

Richard Fateman published two papers on this, one where MacLisp beat out Fortran, in 1973 (http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=1086803.1086804), and a really comprehensive paper about Common Lisp in 1995 (http://www.scribd.com/doc/49112889/fateman-et-al-fast-floati...).

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