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bolega  
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 More options Jun 14 2010, 1:10 pm
Newsgroups: sci.math, comp.lang.lisp, comp.lang.scheme, comp.lang.c++, comp.lang.python
From: bolega <gnuist...@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2010 10:10:08 -0700 (PDT)
Local: Mon, Jun 14 2010 1:10 pm
Subject: Is Scheme/LISP faster than C/C++
Quoting the following post :-

I am looking for expert opinions

http://groups.google.com/group/gnu.emacs.help/browse_thread/thread/54...

> Probably doesn't meet your intent, but this is a really impressive bit
> of (whacky) art:

Lisp runs faster than C. Once you get more time away from screwing
Palestinians, and other false-flags, you will find ideas like these

How to make Lisp go faster than C
Didier Verna
Abstract
Contrary to popular belief, Lisp code can be very ef-
 cient today: it can run as fast as equivalent C code
or even faster in some cases. In this paper, we explain
how to tune Lisp code for performance by introducing
the proper type declarations, using the appropriate
data structures and compiler information. We also
explain how e ciency is achieved by the compilers.
These techniques are applied to simple image process-
ing algorithms in order to demonstrate the announced
performance on pixel access and arithmetic operations
in both languages.

=======
Standard Disclaimer, nothing personal

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lX18zUp6WPY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQapkVCx1HI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXJ-k-iOg0M

Hey Racist and INcompetent FBI Bustards, where is the ANTHRAX Mailer ?
Where are the 4 blackboxes ? Where are the Pentagon Videos ? Why did
you release the 5 dancing Israelis compromising the whole 911
investigation ? If the Dubai Police can catch Mossad Murderers and put
the videos and Iranian Police can why cant you put the Pentagon
Videos ? If Iran police can put the AMERICAN TERRORIST, Riggi and
puting on INTERNATIONAL MEDIA a day after catching him without
TORTURE, why cant you put the INNOCENT patsies on the MEDIA. Why did
you have to LIE about Dr Afiya Siddiqui and torture that Innocent
little mother of 3 and smashing the skull of her one child ?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhMcii8smxk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SZ2lxDJmdg

There are CRIMINAL cases against CIA CRIMINAL Bustards in Italian
courts.

FBI bustards paid a penalty of $5.8 million to Steven Hatfill, but
only because he was a white. They got away with MURDER of thousands of
Non-whites in all parts of the world.

Daily 911 news : http://911blogger.com

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRfhUezbKLw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7kGZ3XPEm4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lX18zUp6WPY


 
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 More options Jun 14 2010, 1:17 pm
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From: bolega <gnuist...@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2010 10:17:48 -0700 (PDT)
Local: Mon, Jun 14 2010 1:17 pm
Subject: Re: Is Scheme/LISP faster than C/C++
Sorry, I dont have access to the journal papers ... or I would do
research myself.

On Jun 14, 10:10 am, bolega <gnuist...@gmail.com> wrote:


 
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nanothermite911fbibustard s  
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 More options Jun 14 2010, 1:48 pm
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From: nanothermite911fbibustards <nanothermite911fbibusta...@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2010 10:48:24 -0700 (PDT)
Local: Mon, Jun 14 2010 1:48 pm
Subject: Re: Is Scheme/LISP faster than C/C++
On Jun 14, 10:17 am, bolega <gnuist...@gmail.com> wrote:

Here is the paper :

http://www.iaeng.org/IJCS/issues_v32/issue_4/IJCS_32_4_19.pdf

Get ghostview which can show you better font display of the older
types.

I give good help and I ask people to spread the info in my sig by
quoting it.

The FAT per DIEM FBI bustards use our TAX PAYER MONEY and INCOMPETENCE
is UNACCEPTABLE.

=====

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lX18zUp6WPY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQapkVCx1HI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXJ-k-iOg0M

Hey Racist and INcompetent FBI Bustards, where is the ANTHRAX Mailer ?
Where are the 4 blackboxes ? Where are the Pentagon Videos ? Why did
you release the 5 dancing Israelis compromising the whole 911
investigation ? If the Dubai Police can catch Mossad Murderers and put
the videos and Iranian Police can why cant you put the Pentagon
Videos ? If Iran police can put the AMERICAN TERRORIST, Riggi and
puting on INTERNATIONAL MEDIA a day after catching him without
TORTURE, why cant you put the INNOCENT patsies on the MEDIA. Why did
you have to LIE about Dr Afiya Siddiqui and torture that Innocent
little mother of 3 and smashing the skull of her one child ?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhMcii8smxk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SZ2lxDJmdg

There are CRIMINAL cases against CIA CRIMINAL Bustards in Italian
courts.

FBI bustards paid a penalty of $5.8 million to Steven Hatfill, but
only because he was a white. They got away with MURDER of thousands of
Non-whites in all parts of the world.

Daily 911 news : http://911blogger.com

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRfhUezbKLw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7kGZ3XPEm4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lX18zUp6WPY

Conclusion : FBI bustards are RACIST and INcompetent. They could
neither catch the ANTHRAX or 911 YANK/Jew criminals nor could they
cover them up - whichever was their actual task.

SLASH the SALARIES of FBI/CIA/NSA etc BUSTARDS into half all across
tbe board, esp the whites/jew on the top.


 
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fortunatus  
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 More options Jun 14 2010, 1:53 pm
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From: fortunatus <daniel.elia...@excite.com>
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2010 10:53:06 -0700 (PDT)
Local: Mon, Jun 14 2010 1:53 pm
Subject: Re: Is Scheme/LISP faster than C/C++
For crying out loud, the best any compiler can do is make optimal
machine language.  Many C compilers can do that over most inputs.  So
can many Lisp compilers if you give the right type data.  So it's a
moot point.

The only point to discuss would be that Scheme - in the R5 version of
the spec at least - doesn't have standard way to specify type data
unless I am mistaken.  Therefore you  will find that Scheme compilers
add their own syntax for it.  Again we are led to a moot point.


 
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 More options Jun 14 2010, 2:02 pm
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From: fortunatus <daniel.elia...@excite.com>
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2010 11:02:05 -0700 (PDT)
Local: Mon, Jun 14 2010 2:02 pm
Subject: Re: Is Scheme/LISP faster than C/C++
One point that might be interesting, you do include C++ in your post.
Therefore some compare/contrast of C++ class member function
invocation rate versus Lisp object method invocation rate might be
meaningful.  I'm sure if you Google back through comp.lang.lisp you
will find plenty on it already.

 
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Raymond Toy  
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 More options Jun 14 2010, 3:34 pm
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From: Raymond Toy <toy.raym...@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2010 15:34:42 -0400
Local: Mon, Jun 14 2010 3:34 pm
Subject: Re: Is Scheme/LISP faster than C/C++
On 6/14/10 1:53 PM, fortunatus wrote:

> For crying out loud, the best any compiler can do is make optimal
> machine language.  Many C compilers can do that over most inputs.  So

Is that why I had to use assembly code instead of C for some parts of my
previous projects?

There was even one example where the C compiler made spectacularly bad
code.  I only needed 6 pointer registers (the arch has 8), but the
compiler decided to use only one or two and spilled and reloaded them
from the stack for each use.  Yay!

Ray


 
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Aaron W. Hsu  
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 More options Jun 14 2010, 8:12 pm
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Followup-To: comp.lang.scheme
From: "Aaron W. Hsu" <arcf...@sacrideo.us>
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2010 20:12:19 -0400
Local: Mon, Jun 14 2010 8:12 pm
Subject: Re: Is Scheme/LISP faster than C/C++

fortunatus wrote:
> The only point to discuss would be that Scheme - in the R5 version of
> the spec at least - doesn't have standard way to specify type data
> unless I am mistaken.  Therefore you  will find that Scheme compilers
> add their own syntax for it.  Again we are led to a moot point.

One of the points of something like Chez Scheme is that it compiles
standard Scheme, without additional static typing -- which, personally,
I find rather annoying -- into code that is often quite competitive with
C code if not faster.

More specifically, there is nothing inherently slow about the Scheme
language. While there are some things that are inherently expensive,
they are not more expensive than the equivalent constructs in C by
nature. Scheme can be compiled into very fast code, without resorting to
tricks like type declarations, and there are real life compilers out
there which do this.

I've heard it said, it is easy to beat C compilers for fast code, it's
just hard to beat them at benchmarks written for C. That is, do the same
type of things as what Scheme gives you, such as lots of dynamic
allocation and resizing, higher order functions, and closures, and you
won't find C faster. Benchmarks to compare C with Scheme often don't
compare the things Scheme is good at, but focus only on the static
things that C was designed for.

        Aaron W. Hsu


 
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Grant Edwards  
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 More options Jun 14 2010, 11:10 pm
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp, comp.lang.scheme, comp.lang.c++, comp.lang.python
From: Grant Edwards <inva...@invalid.invalid>
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2010 03:10:10 +0000 (UTC)
Local: Mon, Jun 14 2010 11:10 pm
Subject: Re: Is Scheme/LISP faster than C/C++
On 2010-06-15, Aaron W. Hsu <arcf...@sacrideo.us> wrote:

> I've heard it said, it is easy to beat C compilers for fast code, it's
> just hard to beat them at benchmarks written for C. That is, do the same
> type of things as what Scheme gives you, such as lots of dynamic
> allocation and resizing, higher order functions, and closures, and you
> won't find C faster.

I don't know about that...

It's hard to beat the speed of a program that segfaults immediately.  ;)

It's hardly fair if you're going to demand that the C program actually
works correctly.

--
Grant


 
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Captain Obvious  
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 More options Jun 15 2010, 3:40 am
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From: "Captain Obvious" <udode...@users.sourceforge.net>
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2010 10:40:01 +0300
Local: Tues, Jun 15 2010 3:40 am
Subject: Re: Is Scheme/LISP faster than C/C++
 b> I am looking for expert opinions

Are you a new gavino or something like that?


 
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 More options Jun 15 2010, 5:00 am
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From: Tim Bradshaw <t...@tfeb.org>
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2010 10:00:32 +0100
Local: Tues, Jun 15 2010 5:00 am
Subject: Re: Is Scheme/LISP faster than C/C++
On 2010-06-15 08:40:01 +0100, Captain Obvious said:

> Are you a new gavino or something like that?

I think there is an infinite supply of them.

 
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 More options Jun 15 2010, 6:03 am
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From: Norbert_Paul <norbertpauls_spam...@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2010 12:03:48 +0200
Local: Tues, Jun 15 2010 6:03 am
Subject: Re: Is Scheme/LISP faster than C/C++

Tim Bradshaw wrote:
> On 2010-06-15 08:40:01 +0100, Captain Obvious said:

>> Are you a new gavino or something like that?

> I think there is an infinite supply of them.

Maybe (equalp bolega gavino) but not eq.
Note the disclaimer which is untypical for
the original gavino.

 
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 More options Jun 15 2010, 7:42 am
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From: "Captain Obvious" <udode...@users.sourceforge.net>
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2010 14:42:51 +0300
Local: Tues, Jun 15 2010 7:42 am
Subject: Re: Is Scheme/LISP faster than C/C++
 NP> Maybe (equalp bolega gavino) but not eq.
 NP> Note the disclaimer which is untypical for
 NP> the original gavino.

As I understand that was a quote from another guy.

nanothermite911fbibustards:
"I give good help and I ask people to spread the info in my sig by quoting
it."


 
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Tamas K Papp  
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 More options Jun 15 2010, 8:30 am
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From: Tamas K Papp <tkp...@gmail.com>
Date: 15 Jun 2010 12:30:45 GMT
Local: Tues, Jun 15 2010 8:30 am
Subject: Re: Is Scheme/LISP faster than C/C++

On Tue, 15 Jun 2010 14:42:51 +0300, Captain Obvious wrote:
> NP> Maybe (equalp bolega gavino) but not eq.
>  NP> Note the disclaimer which is untypical for NP> the original gavino.

> As I understand that was a quote from another guy.

> nanothermite911fbibustards:
> "I give good help and I ask people to spread the info in my sig by
> quoting it."

Doing that put him in my killfile.  Quoting off-topic gibberish is not
good manners either.

But I was already suspicious of this guy being gavino 2.0.  He kept
asking very general and broad questions, while giving no indication
that he writes actual code.

Tamas


 
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 More options Jun 15 2010, 9:26 am
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From: Norbert_Paul <norbertpauls_spam...@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2010 15:26:54 +0200
Local: Tues, Jun 15 2010 9:26 am
Subject: Re: Is Scheme/LISP faster than C/C++
Tamas K Papp wrote:
> Doing that put him in my killfile.  Quoting off-topic gibberish is not
> good manners either.

Interesting!!!

What is a killfile?
Which news-reader do you use?

I always wanted to be able to filter news but Iceape won't let me.


 
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Tim Bradshaw  
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 More options Jun 15 2010, 9:26 am
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From: Tim Bradshaw <t...@tfeb.org>
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2010 14:26:47 +0100
Local: Tues, Jun 15 2010 9:26 am
Subject: Re: Is Scheme/LISP faster than C/C++
On 2010-06-15 13:30:45 +0100, Tamas K Papp said:

> But I was already suspicious of this guy being gavino 2.0.

I think it's important to understand that gavinos are non-denumerable
(proof of this is left as an exercise - it is a fairly obvious
diagonalisation argument), so it's not really correct to refer to them
by numbers like 2.0, or at least not without saying that it is an
approximation (maybe this was implicit of course, in which case I
apologise).  I believe that gavinos are normally mapped to [0, 1) in
fact, though I'm not an expert in the field.

 
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 More options Jun 15 2010, 9:27 am
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From: Tim Bradshaw <t...@tfeb.org>
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2010 14:27:48 +0100
Local: Tues, Jun 15 2010 9:27 am
Subject: Re: Is Scheme/LISP faster than C/C++
On 2010-06-15 14:26:54 +0100, Norbert_Paul said:

> What is a killfile?

That this question can even be asked!

 
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 More options Jun 15 2010, 9:34 am
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From: Pillsy <pillsb...@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2010 06:34:24 -0700 (PDT)
Local: Tues, Jun 15 2010 9:34 am
Subject: Re: Is Scheme/LISP faster than C/C++
On Jun 15, 9:26 am, Tim Bradshaw <t...@tfeb.org> wrote:

> On 2010-06-15 13:30:45 +0100, Tamas K Papp said:
> > But I was already suspicious of this guy being gavino 2.0.
> I think it's important to understand that gavinos are non-denumerable
> (proof of this is left as an exercise - it is a fairly obvious
> diagonalisation argument), so it's not really correct to refer to them
> by numbers like 2.0, or at least not without saying that it is an
> approximation (maybe this was implicit of course, in which case I
> apologise).  I believe that gavinos are normally mapped to [0, 1) in
> fact, though I'm not an expert in the field.

Gavinos are the supersymmetric partners of gavons. You may think that
bolega and gavino are never seen together because they're the same
person, but it's really the Pauli Exclusion Principle at work.

Cheers,
Pillsy


 
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 More options Jun 15 2010, 9:45 am
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Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2010 15:45:56 +0200
Local: Tues, Jun 15 2010 9:45 am
Subject: Re: Is Scheme/LISP faster than C/C++
Tim Bradshaw wrote:
>> What is a killfile?
> That this question can even be asked!

Don't make me put you there!

This could be the start of a beautiful flame war.


 
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Tamas K Papp  
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 More options Jun 15 2010, 10:45 am
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From: Tamas K Papp <tkp...@gmail.com>
Date: 15 Jun 2010 14:45:45 GMT
Local: Tues, Jun 15 2010 10:45 am
Subject: Re: Is Scheme/LISP faster than C/C++

On Tue, 15 Jun 2010 14:26:47 +0100, Tim Bradshaw wrote:
> On 2010-06-15 13:30:45 +0100, Tamas K Papp said:

>> But I was already suspicious of this guy being gavino 2.0.

> I think it's important to understand that gavinos are non-denumerable
> (proof of this is left as an exercise - it is a fairly obvious
> diagonalisation argument), so it's not really correct to refer to them
> by numbers like 2.0, or at least not without saying that it is an
> approximation (maybe this was implicit of course, in which case I
> apologise).  I believe that gavinos are normally mapped to [0, 1) in
> fact, though I'm not an expert in the field.

I think that a finite state continuous-time Markov process is a good
model for gavinos.  They arrive with a Poisson rate of about 1-5/year
(remains to be estimated), then alternate between a "dormant" and
"active" state (only in the case of reentrant gavinos only, of course,
otherwise they don't come back from the dormant state).  In the
"active" state, they post nonsense occasionally.

If this is a good model, then gavinos are denumerable by construction.
But the 2.0 was referring to the level of sophistication.  This one
reached the level of Emacs doctor mode, at least.

Tamas


 
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 More options Jun 15 2010, 11:07 am
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Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2010 17:07:41 +0200
Local: Tues, Jun 15 2010 11:07 am
Subject: Re: Is Scheme/LISP faster than C/C++
Tim Bradshaw wrote:
> On 2010-06-15 13:30:45 +0100, Tamas K Papp said:

>> But I was already suspicious of this guy being gavino 2.0.

> I think it's important to understand that gavinos are non-denumerable

Cool!! Are there finite non-denumerable sets?

 
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 More options Jun 15 2010, 11:17 am
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From: Tim Bradshaw <t...@tfeb.org>
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2010 16:17:30 +0100
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Subject: Re: Is Scheme/LISP faster than C/C++
On 2010-06-15 15:45:45 +0100, Tamas K Papp said:

> If this is a good model, then gavinos are denumerable by construction.

I don't think they are, are they, because the transition probabilities
are real.

 
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 More options Jun 15 2010, 5:56 pm
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From: p...@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon)
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2010 23:56:28 +0200
Local: Tues, Jun 15 2010 5:56 pm
Subject: Re: Is Scheme/LISP faster than C/C++

Norbert_Paul <norbertpauls_spam...@yahoo.com> writes:
> Tamas K Papp wrote:
>> Doing that put him in my killfile.  Quoting off-topic gibberish is not
>> good manners either.
> Interesting!!!

> What is a killfile?

As its name implies...

> Which news-reader do you use?

That this question can even be asked!

> I always wanted to be able to filter news but Iceape won't let me.

Use GNUS (ie. emacs!).

--
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Tamas K Papp  
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 More options Jun 16 2010, 2:41 am
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From: Tamas K Papp <tkp...@gmail.com>
Date: 16 Jun 2010 06:41:03 GMT
Local: Wed, Jun 16 2010 2:41 am
Subject: Re: Is Scheme/LISP faster than C/C++

On Tue, 15 Jun 2010 15:26:54 +0200, Norbert_Paul wrote:
> Tamas K Papp wrote:
>> Doing that put him in my killfile.  Quoting off-topic gibberish is not
>> good manners either.
> Interesting!!!

> What is a killfile?
> Which news-reader do you use?

> I always wanted to be able to filter news but Iceape won't let me.

I am using Pan on Linux.  Not perfect, but satisfactory.

Tamas


 
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Discussion subject changed to "A Question I will never ask (was ''Is Scheme/LISP faster than C/C+'')" by Norbert_Paul
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From: Norbert_Paul <norbertpauls_spam...@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2010 08:53:51 +0200
Local: Wed, Jun 16 2010 2:53 am
Subject: Re: A Question I will never ask (was ''Is Scheme/LISP faster than C/C+'')
I will never ask for permission to ask a question.
Therfore "May I ask this question?" is my only unaskable question.

Thank you for the replies, though.
Now I know
- what a killfile is (where $Tim \notin killfile (\ddot\smile)$)
- how to use it with Iceape
- some alternative newsreaders I might try in future.

Thank you for answering.
Norbert

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> What is a killfile?
> Which news-reader do you use?

and will never ask that again.

 
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Discussion subject changed to "Is Scheme/LISP faster than C/C++" by Tim Bradshaw
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On 2010-06-15 16:07:41 +0100, Norbert_Paul said:

> Cool!! Are there finite non-denumerable sets?

Either my newsreader is broken or I am, as I think I sent an answer to
this but it doesn't seem to be there.  Anyway: no.

 
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