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Re: perl vs. Euphoria

• Posted by Robert Craig <rds at ATTCANADA.NET> Sep 01, 2000
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J. Kenneth Riviere writes:
> I have a hard time believing that it is 40 to
> 60 times faster than perl.

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.

Regards,
   Rob Craig
   Rapid Deployment Software
   http://www.RapidEuphoria.com