commit 49aa9048b7c1048ca42a51d7c5718d49930f659d
parent 949775dd65ca9ae0f231c529a886af5e5b795a82
Author: Alexander Burger <abu@software-lab.de>
Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2011 08:13:50 +0100
Minor addition to ersatz/README
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1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/ersatz/README b/ersatz/README
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-16may11abu
+07dec11abu
(c) Software Lab. Alexander Burger
@@ -12,6 +12,9 @@ It should be the last resort when there is no other way to run a "real"
PicoLisp. Also, it may be used to bootstrap the 64-bit version, which requires a
running PicoLisp to build from the sources.
+Unfortunately, ErsatzLisp lacks everything which makes up "true" PicoLisp:
+Speed, small memory footprint, and simple internal structures.
+
Performance is rather poor. It is 5 to 10 times slower, allocates a huge amount
of memory at startup (600 MB vs. 3 MB), and needs 2.5 to 4 times the space for
runtime Lisp data. But efficiency was not a major goal. Instead, performance was
