From: Mark Hubbart <discord@...>
Date: 2004-06-19T03:08:06+09:00
Subject: Re: the new great computer language shootout


On Jun 18, 2004, at 3:43 AM, denis wrote:

> 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.

hmmm... actually, 12% speed increase (actually a 12.7% time decrease, 
to be specific) would just kick us up one notch, putting us ahead of 
gawk (on my box, anyway, YMMV). But at least we wouldn't be last :)

cheers,
Mark