mailnews@andante.UUCP (Henry Kautz's mailnews program) (03/15/88)
I just ported a substantial piece of software which implements a knowledge representation system to Allegro Common Lisp, implemented by Coral Software of Cambridge Mass. It was one of the most painless porting jobs I've ever experienced. I did this without looking at manuals (I hate manuals), and asking anybody else for help. The debugger, the editor (Fred - Emacs clone) and the listener are all seamlessly integrated, and everything works the way you expect. More gratifying was the performance. To load our largish knowledge base, Coral lisp took about 390 seconds on a Mac II (8MB, 80MB hard disk, multifinder) with about 8 seconds spent GC'ing. By comparison, our Symbolics 3670 behemoths take about 200 seconds to load the same KB. This gives the MacII a 10 to 1 Price/Performance advantage over the 3670. They seem to have neat macpaint-like tools to create window interfaces, which I haven't really played with. More on that later. Prem Devanbu These are solely my personal opinion, not that of my employer. This opinion is unsolicited by any of the employees or owners of Coral Software, none of whom, to my knowledge, I know.
mfi@beach.cis.ufl.edu (Mark Interrante) (03/15/88)
In article <9019@andante.UUCP> mailnews@andante.UUCP (Henry Kautz's mailnews program) writes: >I just ported a substantial piece of software which implements a knowledge >representation system to Allegro Common Lisp, implemented by Coral Software >of Cambridge Mass. > >More gratifying was the performance. To load our largish knowledge base, >Coral lisp took about 390 seconds on a Mac II (8MB, 80MB hard disk, >multifinder) with about 8 seconds spent GC'ing. By comparison, our >Symbolics 3670 behemoths take about 200 seconds to load the same KB. >This gives the MacII a 10 to 1 Price/Performance advantage over the >3670. Could you please comment on the relative performance of the systems running (after they have loaded.)? Mark Interrante CIS Department University of Florida Internet: mfi@beach.cis.ufl.edu Gainesville, FL 32611 (904) 335-8051