Re: [clisp-list] A general query on the virtual machine

[Raymond T. <to...@rt...>]

>>>>> "lin8080" == lin8080  <li...@fr...> writes:

    lin8080> Peter Wood wrote:
    lin8080> Is the general consensus that fast, faster, fastest == good, better,
    lin8080> best?   If that is an unconditional judgement, then move to CMUCL.
    lin8080> ...................

    lin8080> So, I mean better is: when you can use a command several times and not
    lin8080> only once. When CPUs move over 1 GHz, what priority has
    lin8080> speed-optimizing?

If there were no reason to go faster, there wouldn't be 2+ GHz
processors.

There will always be something that needs the speed.

Ray