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Re: more powerful than c++(...able to leap over tall buildings with a ..)

• Posted by gertie at visionsix.com Apr 03, 2003
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On 2 Apr 2003, at 21:08, dubetyrant at hotmail.com wrote:

> 
> So c++ must be as fast as c because it is compiled? Does that mean any 
> compiled language would be faster than the fastest interpreted?(euphoria);}

Depending on how an interpreter is set up, a well designed interpreted 
language could run almost as fast as a compiled language. Both do a once-
thru to optomise constants and inline code blocks. If the keywords in the 
interpreted language are also replaced with the equivalent inline pre-compiled 
code, or at least a jmp to such code, the interpreter will be faster than 1/2 as
fast as the compiled code. And some interpreted language implementations 
will run faster than compiled: Eu interpreted will outrun my Turbo pascal 
compiled code.

Kat


> 
> 
> >From: Derek Parnell <ddparnell at bigpond.com>
> >Reply-To: EUforum at topica.com
> >To: EUforum <EUforum at topica.com>
> >Subject: Re: more powerful than c++(...able to leap over tall buildings 
> >with a ..)
> >Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2003 11:53:44 +1000
> >
> >
> >On Wed, 2 Apr 2003 19:36:37 -0500, <dubetyrant at hotmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >>Hi all,
> >>Just curious, the claim that euphoria is "more powerfull than c++", how is
> >>this arrived at? As a side note, I love euphoria and believe that Rob C. is
> >>close to a genius, I just want to know why thats on the website? We already
> >>know euphoria is slower than c because it was programmed in c, but what is
> >>the
> >>comparison with c++ coming from, any benchmarks? These are the two languages
> >>I
> >>deal with, Im kind of curious... thx,
> >
> >I suspect it comes from the idea that, given a programming project that 
> >started from scratch (ie. no-code reuse from other projects), one could 
> >achieve delivery of the product faster with Euphoria than with C++, and 
> >with fewer bugs.
> >
> >I don't know of any hard data to support this position, and I'm sure it is
> >anacedotal. Religious Wars have been started over less 
> >
> >I'd love to see properly kept statistics over the life-time of a Euphoria
> >project which was run in a CMM Level 3+ environment.
> >
> >--
> >
> >cheers,
> >Derek Parnell
> >
> >
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