Summing up
I came across this post talking about numerical speed in Clojure, so I thought I would try out the equivalent in Common Lisp (Clozure CL) on my Macbook: CL-USER> (let* ((arr-size 3000000)…
speed
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What has speed brought ?
Many good things, to be sure, but more has been omitted. Perhaps Kent Pitman expressed it the best: I want speedups not just to make my same old boring life faster, but to buy me the flexibility to…
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I’m getting somewhat peeved with the repetitive claims that C is so fast. It isn’t. it never was. It’s just that the language is fairly transparent down to the machine level so when you change somet…