Re: Some initial clarifications
- Posted by petelomax Jan 13, 2019
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I want to implement algorithms for clustering and genetic algorithms.
As it happens, I added https://rosettacode.org/wiki/K-means%2B%2B_clustering#Phix quite recently, not that you can run that...
Is it possible to do this in oE with equivalent speed? I don't mind 30 or 50% more execution time, but can not tolerate ten times more.
Probably. There are going to be some cases where C-based languages are up to 8x faster, but on the whole actually reaching that is fairly unlikely (and OE's translate to C may help), conversely there may be cases where reference counting/copy-on-write means OE/phix does not always have to make copies "just in case", and that way end up being significantly faster.
3. Have no experience in parallelism and in C++ looked hard for me that have no formal education in programming. I know the subject is not easy for many kinds of work. In oE, is it simpler than in C/C++?
OE does not do parallelism. I have done multi-threading in both C++ and phix, and found the latter significantly easier, but then again I am slightly biased.
If you are meaning SSE-style parallelism, neither OE nor phix do that (yet).
3. Is it possible to create graphics like these: https://youtu.be/HWMJdO4klIE?t=2026
Yes. One example I would have pointed to is boids, but while I can run that on linux, you cannot. There's probably something similar in EuGTK.
4. Is there support to load and save text files of CSV, XML and other formats?
Sure, in fact I've also just written a new builtin for xml handling on phix, not yet uploaded or properly documented though.
For csv, see https://rosettacode.org/wiki/CSV_data_manipulation#Euphoria and also for both, have a look in The Archive or PCAN.
is iup easy? Really didn't want to learn GTK as it seems a mammoth to me.
I think it is. Right now, at least until I get a handle on that pesky segfault, your best bet is OE + EuGTK though.
8. Is Phix able to execute faster and have less memory requirements than oE for the subject of my work?
Unanswerable. Probably not much margin either way.
9. Followed the download instruction for Phix x86_64, but got a segmentation error. Raised an issue at https://bitbucket.org/petelomax/phix
Looking at it, struggling a bit.
Is Linux a second quality supported OS for either oE and Phix?
Re Phix: Sadly, although I try my best, it is not entirely unfair to suggest that. I am a one-man band and spend more time on Windows than Linux.
Conversely OE might actually be better supported on Linux than Windows(?)
