Prolog vs. Lisp

Abstract

Prolog and Lisp benchmark timings are compared on the VAX 8600. The measured Lisp-to-Prolog time ratio varies between 0.143 and 2.83. These differences between Prolog and Lisp performance can be explained by studying the structure of the benchmarks and the language implementations. Previous authors have used such measurements as evidence that one language is "better" than the other; their works are summarized. The issues involved in comparing two languages are treated, as well as the assumptions involved in interpreting language performance data.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 17, 1989
Accession Number
ADA631687

Entities

People

  • Carl Ponder

Organizations

  • University of California, Berkeley

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Algorithms
  • Applied Mathematics
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • California
  • Compilers
  • Computations
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Science
  • Computers
  • Language
  • Lisp Programming Language
  • Measurement
  • Polynomials
  • Programming Languages
  • Statistics
  • Symbolic Programming

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Parallel and Distributed Computing.
  • Regression Analysis.