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From: blume@beth.cs.princeton.edu (Matthias Blume)
Subject: Re: Tcl/Lisp/Python: A "User" point of view
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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
