OpenEuphoria

Re: voting on GOTO

• Posted by c.k.lester <euphoric at c?l?ster.com> Jun 06, 2008
• 798 views

Jim Brown wrote:
> 
> 9,999,999 function calls is about 2 seconds. 99,999,999 gotos is <1 second.

While that kicks total butt, I have to wonder who calls a function almost
10 million times? Just curious. I'm sure Kat with her processing of gigabytes
of text probably makes use of some lines of code many many times... Kat?

> w/o goto
> 
> function factorial(atom a)
> if a < 3 then
> return a
> end if
> return a*factorial(a-1)
> end function
> 
> w/ goto
> 
> function factorial(atom a)
> stom b
> b = a
> 
> label "start"
> a = a - 1
> 
> if a <= 2 then
> goto "end"
> end if
> 
> b = b * a
> goto "start"
> 
> label "end"
> return b
> end function

Would it be possible for you to benchmark those two functions?