[mercury-users] Is Mercury as fast as C?

[Terrence Brannon]

I was impressed with the section "Determinism" in the manual. The
ability of the compiler to know about the number of solutions in
advance is a huge step forward from a blind interpreter chasing
unification after unification without any expectations on the outcome
of the search.

The question therefore arises: although it is well-known that Mercury
is several times faster than any Prolog that has ever been written,
does it solve problems that we have C programs for as fast as C? If
not, why not?


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