[REBOL] Re: percent! - new datatype request
From: carl:cybercraft at: 18-Jun-2002 21:07
Hi Joel,
I think we've nearly done the perl vs REBOL thing to death, but just a
few comments.
Firstly, thanks for doing the script comparisons. They were
surprisingly close to the results I was getting. And as your noted
too, using hash was still a bit faster.
On 17-Jun-02, Joel Neely wrote:
> While I remain happy to exchange ideas about more effective ways
> to do almost anything with REBOL, I really don't want to become so
> focused on how to optimize a specific example that we miss the big
> picture. As I said before, I believe the *types* of processing in
> the word-count example were typical, not the specific task itself.
> I wanted to offer a simple illustration that wouldn't take too
> much explanation, and to show the performance of *comparable*
> approaches.
I realise that. But different languages perform differently, so I was
trying to think of how best to approach the problem from a REBOL
point of view. For instance, if the roles were reversed and Perl was
the newer language for you and you'd been using REBOL as often and
for as long as you've been using Perl, do you think you would've
overlooked the use of hash? (Other than because it's bugged:) It
takes a while for the best approaches to become second nature.
That said, Perl at this stage is obviously the better choice for the
kind of processing you're talking about when speed's an issue.
--
Carl Read
