Re: Fwd: Euphoria Speed
- Posted by petelomax at blueyonder.co.uk Aug 10, 2002
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On Sat, 10 Aug 2002 10:45:45 -0400, dubetyrant at hotmail.com wrote: >> Euphoria, "a great hobbyist language",what the heck is >>that supposed to mean? I interpret that as "one-man-band" bias; i.e. there's no real support for a team project & alot of given stuff in commercial ($£$ 000's) is rather "ad hoc" in that you have to search for it in the archives/ask in the mailing list instead of it being part & parcel of the sold product/scrupiously documented. No big deal, really. Whatever, it is fast enough, a better bet for raw speed than say C++ or Java for virtually anything you want to do with it; bar specialist stuff like DSP (digital signal processing) which warrants highly optimised machine code anyway. Plus if you do hit a speed problem, there is nothing to stop you linking such in where needed. Just as an example, I recently speed tested Code Genie and Crimson editor against the one I am updating written in Euphoria; the former two scroll 5000 lines in 20 seconds on my machine, the Euphoria version takes 23 seconds. I reckon that's a) I haven't spent any time speeding the thing up recently, and b) a very fair trade off for something being *far* easier to code in. Pete