OpenEuphoria

Re: Eu Interpreted

• Posted by euman at bellsouth.net Aug 14, 2001
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I said yrs ago that I thought Euphoria file i/o was pretty
slow but I hear Robert keep saying that's just not so..

Lua beat up on Eu didnt it...

Robert, what are your plans for this, if any?
Maybe unleashing some more speed in this area would
be a great selling point....
 
Euman
euman at bellsouth.net

> However, all this proves is that Lua seems to be much more suited 
> to text manipulation, while Euphoria is better at math. 
> 
> Another trial:
> To read a 10,500 line text file (390,780 bytes) and write it to 5 new files, 
> repeated 10 times, takes:
> Euphoria:   49.20 seconds
> Lua:            0.53 seconds ! 
> (yes, I tested it several times. The files are there)
> 
> Looks like Lua is a better deal if you're heavily into file processing.
> These tests were performed on Linux, DOS mileage may vary.
> Lua, by the way, supposedly runs on DOS, Windows, Linux, OSX, Mac, 
> OS-9, OS/2, BeOS,  PalmOS, and - ahem... Playstation II.
> 
> Regards,
> Irv