OpenEuphoria

Re: Is this a joke?

• Posted by Robert Craig <rds at ATTCANADA.NET> Oct 05, 2000
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Euman writes:
> However, some of the sequence operations
> in sequence.ex (in the DEMO'S) were (slightly) slower,
> after all this is an ALPHA release...

Some of those sequence operations make intensive use
of run-time routines, e.g. find(), which aren't made any
faster by compiling. Also, I get the feeling that WATCOM C
generates slightly faster code than DJGPP. That would make
the run-time routines in ec.a a bit slower than those in ec.lib or
the interpreter. I find that sieve.ex and shell.ex are both
a bit faster with WATCOM.

Mike The Spike writes:
> sequence.ex, shell.ex, sieve.ex, etc are all SLOWER once
> translated to C! About 10 TIMES SLOWER! WTF?

That's strange. Maybe you have a very old version of
DJGPP, or maybe you are linking in debug versions of libc
or something. Or maybe it's similar to the WATCOM
factor of 10 problem with time(). If you figure out
anything, let me know - but take care of your health first.

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