Re: Tcl/Lisp/Python: A "User" point of view

Matthias Blume (blume@beth.cs.princeton.edu)
Thu, 29 Sep 1994 13:48:38 GMT

Since we are still in comp.lang.scheme (among others), here are some more
data (from a DEC Alpha box):

Perl:

$ cat test.pl
for ($i = 0 ; $i < 10000 ; $i++) {
unshift(@f, $i) ;
}

$ /bin/time perl test.pl

real 4.6
user 4.4
sys 0.0

VSCM:

$ cat test.scm
cat test.scm
(do ((i 0 (+ i 1))
(l '() (cons i l)))
((>= i 10000) l))
(quit)

$ /bin/time scheme test.scm
[SLIB available]
Loading "test.scm" ...

real 0.3
user 0.2
sys 0.0

$

No attempt is made to draw conclusions from the above...

--
-Matthias