Proof that Prolog can be faster than C

[Richard Tobin]

>This is silly! Haven't you learned yet that no language is faster/slower than
>another language - it's the implementation that's faster/slower than that
>other implementation. 

I think Peter knows all about that.  There is a widespread belief that
languages like prolog can never be as fast as languages like C
(especially for numerical applications); the figures quoted are a
counterexample to that.

I would be interested to know if there are any Lisp compilers that
can produce comparable or better results. 

-- Richard
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