OpenEuphoria

Re: Stupid Newbie-sounding question.

• Posted by Matt Lewis <matthewwalkerlewis at yahoo.com> Jun 02, 2004
• 572 views

Derek Parnell wrote:
> 
> irv mullins wrote:
> > 
> > And even if speed was an overriding concern when Euphoria was 
> > designed, surely it isn't all that important anymore, when even 
> > the cheap WalMart price-busters run at 2.7 ghz.
> 
> Firstly, I agree with you totally. My opinion is that Euphoria is more
> than fast enough for any of the application for which I would choose to
> use it. Making it 50% slower would still leave it more than fast enough.
> 

I agree that Euphoria is fast enough for *most* things that I like to 
do with it, however, it wouldn't be if it slowed down (especially by
50%).  I write a lot of custom optimization code in Euphoria, and it's 
often right on the edge of being fast enough for some things.  If it 
slowed down, I'd have to stop using Euphoria for these tasks (yes,
even running on 3Ghz machines).

It's mainly the flexibility/speed combination that I like.  I can 
develop these things very quickly, and more of my time is focused on the
algorithms, rather than data structure or garbage collection, which 
can be really important when you're looking at, say, hundreds of thousands 
or millions of possible solutions.

I'm sure I'm in the minority on this (although going by User Contributions,
not totally alone), but thought I'd speak up for those of us for whom 
speed still matters.

Matt Lewis