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From: alderson@netcom.com (Richard M. Alderson III)
Subject: Re: Which machines are best for common lisp?
In-Reply-To: hunter@work.nlm.nih.gov's message of 27 Oct 1994 15:44:21 GMT
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In article <HUNTER.94Oct27114421@work.nlm.nih.gov> hunter@work.nlm.nih.gov
(Larry Hunter) writes:

>Ray Han asks:

>>In this inquirey I wish to exclude so called 'lisp machines' and restrict the
>>opinions to machines found in the typical laboratory environment (Sparc,
>>SGI,HP,DEC,Intel, ..etc.)  Let's also exclude MPP platorms such as the CM-5
>>running *Lisp and just stick to high-performace desktop scientific work-
>>station systems.

>>Question: Which ones run common Lisp the best? Which common Lisp is the best
>>for a given architechture?

>Good idea for a thread!  I haven't done any extensive testing, nor have I
>ever seen any published, so this is just anecdotal.  However, I have to say
>that I am *VERY* happy with my current LISP environment, and I'm doing some
>pretty compute-intensive research work in it.

>I'm running Franz Allegro CL 4.2 on an SGI Indigo^2, with the 150MHz R4400
>CPU with 96M ram.

In my previous incarnation, I had an HP 715/50 with 64M running Lucid.  I've
been away from the box for more than a year now, and can't provide timings, but
it was an extremely comfortable development environment from the speed stand-
point.  I'm truly sorry to see Lucid leave the scene.
-- 
Rich Alderson   You know the sort of thing that you can find in any dictionary
                of a strange language, and which so excites the amateur philo-
                logists, itching to derive one tongue from another that they
                know better: a word that is nearly the same in form and meaning
                as the corresponding word in English, or Latin, or Hebrew, or
                what not.
                                                --J. R. R. Tolkien,
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