A tachy “TAK”
Henry G. Baker · ACM SIGPLAN Lisp Pointers · 1992
We show how to speed up the Tak Benchmark by an order of magnitude---5X faster than the Cray-1---on a Common Lisp system (40MHz 80860-based OKIstation) using memoizing. The list-based Takl Benchmark improves even more---30X faster than the Cray-1. Given the speed attainable through memoizing, the possibility of further speedups using parallelism seems unlikely.