Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site utai.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcsri!utai!lamy 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 References: <259@yetti.UUCP> Reply-To: lamy@utai.UUCP (Jean-Francois Lamy) Organization: CSRI, University of Toronto Lines: 14 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