From: vasudevram <vasudevram@...>
Date: 2006-07-27T00:35:05+09:00
Subject: Re: For performance, write it in C


Kristof Bastiaensen wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Jul 2006 17:47:13 +0900, Peter Hickman wrote:
>
> > Whenever the question of performance comes up with scripting languages
> > such as Ruby, Perl or Python there will be people whose response can be
> > summarised as "Write it in C". I am one such person. Some people take
> > offence at this and label us trolls or heretics of the true programming
> > language (take your pick).
> >
> > <snip>
>
> Hi,
>
> When reading your C code, I saw that there is a lot of code that is
> generated.  I'd be interested to see how well the C program does if
> it can work for any size of the squares. In this case I think the problem
> is well suited for logic languages. I wrote a version in the functional
> logic language Curry, which does reasonably well.  It will probably not be

Interesting ... I read somewhere that the OCaml language, while
higher-level than C (and a functional one too), runs some programs at
least, as fast or faster than C ...
Not sure how true that is ...

Vasudev
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