OpenEuphoria

Eu Interpreted

• Posted by Irv Mullins <irvm at ellijay.com> Aug 13, 2001
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On Monday 13 August 2001 15:46, Kat wrote:

> Speaking of Lua, has anyone compared the Eu interpreters coded in Eu to
> the Lua ability to exec commands stored in strings? Are they as fast? Less
> able? What about nested procedures and functions, and lengths of the
> strings? If Eu has a line length limit, is a string that exceeds this limit
> non- executeable in the interpreters? So i cannot pass a 1/2 megabyte file
> to the doubley interpreted Eu, right? I accept that the interpreted
> languages are slower than compiled languages, but is the doubly-interpreted
> Eu still as fast as the Lua in a dostring()?

Kat:

Reading a 10,500 line text file and sorting it100 times in Euphoria takes 
9.38 seconds, the same task in Lua takes 9.61 seconds. Making the sort call 
via "dostring" instead of direct takes 9.62 seconds. I don't think Euphoria 
interpreting Eu code is going to be able to beat that. Or even come close. 

Regards,
Irv