Is Scheme/LISP faster than C/C++

[Raymond Toy]

On 6/14/10 1:53 PM, fortunatus wrote:
> For crying out loud, the best any compiler can do is make optimal
> machine language.  Many C compilers can do that over most inputs.  So

Is that why I had to use assembly code instead of C for some parts of my
previous projects?

There was even one example where the C compiler made spectacularly bad
code.  I only needed 6 pointer registers (the arch has 8), but the
compiler decided to use only one or two and spilled and reloaded them
from the stack for each use.  Yay!

Ray