1. Re: [Re: perl vs. Euphoria]
Robert Craig <rds at ATTCANADA.NET> wrote:
>>I based that figure on the sieve benchmark
>>running on DOS. The Euphoria, Perl and Python
>>sieve programs are included with the Linux version of Euphoria
>>in demo/bench. On Linux, Euphoria (interpreted)
>>beats the other two by a factor of about 35x.
>>Translated/compiled Euphoria is considerably faster
>>(as you'll see when the translator to C is released in a few days).
>>I'd be pleased to see any benchmark results that you can
>>come up with. Just post the code, and any input data
>>that you used.
>>No single benchmark gives the whole story.
>>Proponents of slow languages will favor
>>benchmarks that are diluted by things like I/O,
>>calls to library routines written in C, or unique features
>>built-in to the language. What's fair really depends
>>on what your application is.
I would agree that Euphoria is MUCH faster than Perl & Python, the logical
conclusion is: (if Perl&Python are much slower than Java, and Euphoria is
faster than Java, therefore Euphoria is much faster than Perl&Python).
// ~mark nenadov - marknen at usa.net ~//
- Programmer [perl/python/vb/progress/euphoria]
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