CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
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* The First PROLOG Contest and the Third LISP Contest *
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sponsored by WGSYM of Information Processing Society of Japan
OBJECTIVES: The purpose of these Contests is to gather the timing results of various PROLOG and LISP implementations. We have no intention to rank the implementations. According to the timing results, the implementor can judge the quality of his implementations, and the user can select the most suitable implementation to his application or optimize his programs.
BENCHMARKS: The benchmarks for PROLOG and LISP Contest consists of 4245 and 4111 lines, respectively. The benchmarks are available from:
Richard P. Gabriel (Stanford University, USA)
Guy L. Steele, Jr. (Carnegie-Mellon University, USA)
Henry Lieberman (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
Jerome Chailloux (INRIA, France)
Herbert Stoyan (University of Erlangen, FRG)
Paul F. Wilk (University of Edinburgh, Scotland)
Yasuhiro Kaneda (Cambridge University, England)
Hiroshi G. Okuno (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Public
Corporation, Japan)
PARTICIPATION OF CONTESTS: Any implementor or use of PROLOG or LISP can participate these Contest. The deadline of the Contests is 28 February, 1985. Please send us the timing results by the deadline. The computer-readable data is highly recommended and the media will be returned with the full detailed record.
REPORT: The full detailed record will be published in English next year.
FURTHER INFORMATION: For further information, please contact the organizer (Vice-chairman of WGSYM of IPSJ):
Hiroshi G. Okuno
Research Division
Musashino Electrical Communication Laboratory
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Public Corporation
3-9-11 Midoricho, Musashino
Tokyo, 180 Japan
Phone: (0422)59-3323
Telex: 2822620 NTTECL J.