- author = "Kenneth R. Anderson",
- title = "Courage in Profiling",
- institution = "BBN",
- year = "1994",
- month = "28 " # jul,
- keywords = "genetic algorithms, genetic programming, CASCOR1",
-
URL = "
http://openmap.bbn.com/~kanderso/performance/postscript/courage-in-profiles.ps",
- size = "19 pages",
- abstract = "This paper challenges the myth that Lisp programs are slow, and C programs are fast, by comparing two 2000 line programs. The two programs are popular machine learning programs, Fahlman's Cascade Correlation program, CASCOR1, and John Koza's Genetic Programming program, referred to here as GP. CASCOR1 is floating point intensive, while GP is floating point and structure manipulation intensive.",
-
notes = "Compares speed of GP systems written in C (Tackett's
SGPC which uses a tree representation) and Lisp (John
Koza) on a symbolic regression problem, Optimised lisp
performs better than expected. Koza lisp GP code
performance improved 30 fold by use of
profiling.
Software: broken June 2026 ftp://openmap.bbn.com/pub/kanderson/faster94/faster94/courage/koza3.lisp See https://cl-pdx.com/comp.lang.lisp/2008/oct/250360.html
2. You can easily convert your eval into a closure compiler: Paper: http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~feeley/papers/complang87.ps.gz",
