OpenEuphoria

Re: 2.6 feature request: foreach (off topic)

• Posted by Jason Gade <jaygade at gmail.com> Jul 15, 2005
• 462 views

Vincent wrote:
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> 
> posted by: Vincent <darkvincentdude at yahoo.com>
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> Robert Craig wrote:
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>> Vincent wrote:

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> In most bentchmarks, PB would be Euphoria by a long shot, perhaps even beat
> C/C++ in a few, because the code is converted directly to optimized
> ASM before being compiled. It just seems that linked lists might not
> be all that efficent internally.
> 

You forget that most C/C++ compilers also convert their code directly to 
*optimized ASM* before being compiled.  That's what all of those -O 
options do on your compiler.

I highly doubt if any BASIC could outperform properly written C/C++ in a 
significant project.  The key to Euphoria, and to a lesser extent 
BASICS, is the removal of the manual memory management you have to use 
for any reasonably sized program.

If you want to move beyond Euphoria, I would suggest D or C for speed, 
Java or Python for cross-platform simplicity.

If you like BASIC though, there's always Freebasic 
http://www.freebasic.net/ or David Cuny's wxBasic 
http://wxbasic.sourceforge.net/



> Regards,
> 
> Vincent
> 
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