17 Feb
2018
17 Feb
'18
3:03 a.m.
On Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 01:01:14PM -0800, Larry McVoy wrote:
So people have called me on the claim that lisp is not
fast. Here's a
rebuttal.
Please write a clone of GNU grep in lisp to demonstrate that the claim
that lisp is slower that C is false.
Best of luck and I'll be super impressed if you can get even remotely
close without dropping into C or assembler. If you do get close, I
will with draw my claim, stand corrected, point future "lisp is slow"
people at the lisp-grep, and buy you dinner and/or drinks.
--lm
And to help you, here is Mike explaining how he made GNU grep fast.
You are welcome to use the same techniques in lisp.
https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2010-August/019310.html#