From: dmertz@... (denis)
Date: 2004-06-18T19:43:20+09:00
Subject: Re: the new great computer language shootout

Mark Hubbart <discord@mac.com> wrote in message news:<80B1FAE0-C0B5-11D8-82C7-000A95D2DFAE@mac.com>...
> On Jun 17, 2004, at 4:03 PM, Eric Hodel wrote:
> 
> > Eric Hodel (drbrain@segment7.net) wrote:
> >
> >> This is because of the use of Numeric#step.  The implementation is
> >> flawed.
> >
> > Never mind, I am smoking crack.
> >
> > The real problem appears to be iteration in general.
> 
> surprisingly, using += on line 18 give a 12% speedup on my box.
> 
> cheers,
> Mark

It is not so surprising += is always faster in Ruby (from my
experience).This change  would place us between mzscheme and mawk.
Note that many other languages (perl, icon lua...) uses += so it
should be allowed.

Ciao

Denis