OpenEuphoria

Re: Re[2]: Benchmark Python vs Euphoria.

• Posted by Jean-Francois Soucaille <bunuel66 at hotmail.com> Jan 07, 2006
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Hi.

First of all I don't want to start a language war.
Then I'm not saying that language A is better than language B.
If it fits your needs, just keep it.
My vision is that Eu provides nicely what I need: an easy way to 
write relatively clean moderately sized programs. Mainly simulations.
Comparing a JIT language with a purely interpreted one is not very full of
sense.
I agree with Robert that you shall take in considaration also the memory
footprint
and the time for starting. What I say is that from all the interpreted languages
I know (call them scripting ones if that's more fashionable) EU is the fastest.
Point.
If we talk about compiled languages that's another story. As an example, I like
very much Pascal (even in its object form  and I'm not sure that if you
compare the total time needed to compile a module in Turbo Pascal or in Free
Pascal
plus it's execution time with the time needed to 'compile' and execute some Java
code the
result will be in favor of Java. 
I'll plan to compare later on Eu with Oberon in it's byte code interpreted form.
That's more comparable even if I think that Oberon is a bit cleaner than Eu. 
I'll let you know.
Anyway, don't forget that this kind of exercise is usually just for fun. Don't
fight 

Have a nice day.