Lisp has average performance in Google AI Competition(jcole.posterous.com)
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Lisp has average performance in Google AI Competition
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... because it is hard to compete with strongly typed,
optimized in runtime code.
Yea. If you get the same program in two different languages, you would expect the faster language to win, it can do a more thorough search. I glanced at the results of the previous competition and the first page was drenched in C++. It is too bad that Clojure wasn't offered as a language in this competition, I remember hearing that it's performance is right up there with Java.
Maybe I should do a on the correlation between language speed and ranking next.
Maybe I should do a on the correlation between language speed and ranking next.
Raw statistical uncertainty aside, if we're trying to judge the languages themselves it would need to be done with programmers skilled with their chosen language. I'd guess that most of the Java entries were by people that knew Java reasonably well from working with it every day, but I wouldn't be surprised if many in the Lisp section were people that had little or no prior experience with Lisp and decided that this would be a fine opportunity to learn it.