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From: lamy@utai.UUCP (Francois Lamy)
Newsgroups: net.lang.lisp
Subject: Re: Vax/VMS Common Lisp : Version 1.1
Message-ID: <737@utai.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 4-Oct-85 18:54:00 EDT
Article-I.D.: utai.737
Posted: Fri Oct  4 18:54:00 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 4-Oct-85 20:15:27 EDT
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Reply-To: lamy@utai.UUCP (Jean-Francois Lamy)
Organization: CSRI, University of Toronto
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Keywords: VMS, Common Lisp
Summary: 


Concerning Vax/VMS Common Lisp: my own (very brief) experience with
Common Lisp dates from almost a year ago on a Concordia University Machine
(first in Canada, eh?).  It was painfully slow, even with 1250 pages of
working set. As I recall, it was even slower than NIL when running 
interpreted code, but ran faster when compiled...

Running Common Lisp on a machine with 50-60 users is perhaps asking for
trouble:  it is usually suggested that each Lisp user has 2 Megs of PHYSICAL
memory available... 

Jean-Francois Lamy        CSNET: lamy%utai@toronto
lecturer, U. of Montreal. UUCP: {decvax,allegra,linus,utzoo}!utcsri!utai!lamy
Ph.D. student, U. Toronto.CDN:  lamy@iro.udem.cdn