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number of arguments limitation
- To: GSB@MIT-ML.ARPA
- Subject: number of arguments limitation
- From: JonL.PA@PARC-MAXC.ARPA
- Date: Thu, 10 Mar 1983 13:03:00 -0000
- Cc: Common-Lisp%SU-AI@SU-SCORE.ARPA
- Mail-from: ARPANET site SU-AI rcvd at 10-Mar-83 0909-PST
Re: your msg of 1 Mar 83 00:14 EST
I think you're right about the performance penalty when a
VAX lisp skirts using CALLS in a natural way; unfortunately, hard
data don't come easily on this point. Perhaps one could compare,
not just raw runtimes, but rather the percentage of runtime spent
in the function-to-function linkage on some typical benchmarks
(TAK comes to mind but . . . ). I'd expect VAX/NIL to have a
modest value here, Interlisp/VAX to be moderately larger, and
Spice/LISP (as currently implemented) to be quite large on this
measure.