[Gcl-users] Re: Gcl-devel Digest, Vol 31, Issue 26

[Camm Maguire]

Greetings!

"Adrienne Gaye Thompson" <address@hidden> writes:

> > > I propose the
> > > test of calculating and multiplying the two largest known distinct
> > > primes.
> > >
> > > ; cf. http://primes.utm.edu/largest.html#biggest
> > >
> > > (time (> (* (1- (expt 2 25964951))  ; Mersenne 42?
> > >             (1- (expt 2 24036583))) ; Mersenne 41?
> > >          1))
> > >
> > >
> > > Comparison of a few Lisps and Lisp wannabees.
> > >
> > > implementation     time                       Machine used
> > >
> > > GCL 2.7.0:         7 seconds                  (fast Dell,
> Debian-Gnu-Linux)
> > > Clisp 2.33:        error: too big             ..
> > > Allegro EE 6.2:    error: too big             ..
> > > CMU Lisp 19a:      error: too big             ..
> > > Guile 1.4:         error: too big             ..
> > > Emacs Lisp 20.7.1: wrong answer               ..
> > > Xemacs Lisp:       wrong answer               ..
> > > Python 2.2.1:      ?much more than 10 minutes ..
> > > Open MCL:          4 minutes                  1 GHz PowerPC G4
> > >
> > > Bob
> > >
> > > P. S.  How few implementations of programming languages exist!
> 
> 
> Looks Like I did choose the right Lisp! Hi Camm, all is well, there seems to
> be no traffic on the users list though. Being an extremely shy person I
> hesitate to mix my humble messages with all your developer-afficionados'.
> Not to worry, I haven't run into any issues worth posting yet, I'm still
> trying to fix my modem!
> 

OK.  Don't know why the user list has not gotten any traffic, but
please don't be shy about using gcl-devel -- everyone has used this
list together in friendly fashion for a long time.

Take care,

> Regards
> Adrienne
> 
> 
> 
> 

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Camm Maguire                                            address@hidden
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