abstract = "This paper compares the performance of the program
evaluation phase of genetic programming using C and
Common Lisp. A simple experiment is conducted, and the
conclusion is that genetic programming implemented in
Common Lisp using on-the-fly compilation of the evolved
programs can be faster than an implementation in C,
also when the compilation time is taken into
consideration. The deciding factor is the number of
times that each evolved program is evaluated.
Categories and Subject Descriptors",
notes = "GECCO-2006 A joint meeting of the fifteenth
international conference on genetic algorithms
(ICGA-2006) and the eleventh annual genetic programming
conference (GP-2006).