From: Matthias Blume
Subject: Re: (debunk-myth '(debunk-myth '(<-efficient gc malloc/free)))
Date: Mon, 06 Nov 1995 00:00:00 +0000
Message-ID: <BLUME.95Nov6161317@zayin.cs.princeton.edu>

In article <··········@camelot.ccs.neu.edu> ····@ccs.neu.edu (William D Clinger) writes:

   In an attempt to provide an "apples-to-apples comparison"
   between garbage collection and explicit storage management,
   or between functional and imperative styles of programming,
   ····@cs.toronto.edu (Jeffrey Mark Siskind) posted two programs
   that implement an EM clustering algorithm.  The functional
   version has been observed to run between 1.6 and 2.7 times as
   long as the imperative version.

   [ ... ]

Could someone, please, repost those two programs (or, preferably, send
them to me by e-mail).  Thanks.

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-Matthias