Functional languages: A performance study

S. Mansoor Sarwar; Marwan H. Abu-Amara

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Functional languages: A performance study

S. Mansoor Sarwar^*
, Marwan H. Abu-Amara

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

This article describes a study evaluating the run time behavior of two functional languages, combinator-based SASL and environment-based Franz LISP, for a set of algorithms. The idea was to measure the effectiveness of the instruction set of a conventional processor and Turner's combinators as the instruction set for a processor that runs functional languages. The study shows that, statistically, the combinator-based implementation of SASL is better than the environment-based implementation of Franz LISP in space and time for at least small to medium-size input data sets.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	163-167
Number of pages	5
Journal	Journal of Systems and Software
Volume	20
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/0164-1212(93)90007-K
State	Published - Feb 1993
Externally published	Yes

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