Re: Lisp vs. Java vs. C++ speed comparison time? [LONG]
Subject: Re: Lisp vs. Java vs. C++ speed comparison time? [LONG]
From: Valery Pipin
Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 11:20:12 +0900
On Saturday 03 July 2004 01:42, Camm Maguire wrote:
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> All lisps here are the latest versions in Debian unstable. GCL was
> run in ANSI mode. The machine was a dual Xeon 2.4Ghz. We already
> know that the relative GCL/CMUCL performance can vary somewhat by
> machine, presumably influenced by cache size and cpu/memory bandwidth
> ratios. It is clear for example that CMUCL is doing a better job on
> the memory layout/access times which predominate in the gc time
> component.
Is that the reason why I do not observe the memory leakage with maxima
computations that done with cmucl implementation. In opposite, the gcl
implementation can consume so much memory that I force to restart the
x-session or even to reboot PC.