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From: tfb@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Tim Bradshaw)
Subject: Re: Maths with LISP
In-Reply-To: haible@ma2s2.mathematik.uni-karlsruhe.de's message of 17 Nov 1994 17:10:58 GMT
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* Bruno Haible wrote:
> I claim that Common Lisp, and especially CLISP, is more suitable for
> mathematical programming than muLISP:

> * Common Lisp has all kinds of number types built-in.
> * CLISP has fast bignums and bigfloats, nearly as fast as GNU gmp.
> * With CLOS and the package system, you can easily and quickly change
>   large software packages to operate on your favorite number category,
>   say polynomials, instead of integers.

Common Lisp implementations are probably also 50-100 times larger than
mulisp (assuming mulisp is ~100k and CLs are typically 5M up). It may
be more suitable on big machines...

--tim

