On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 4:38 AM, Johann Höchtl <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > well the title says pretty much everything. I follow Factor since 1 1/2 year > and still excited about he features and development progress.
Great. > However, I have years of experience as a developer in large ot very large, > business critical applications/systems (C, C++, C#) and we strugeld more than > once with algorithms ond procedures which did not performed as expected. > Agreed, most of the time it was an issue of bad design or choice of wrong > methodologies but in the end "performance matters" Yup. > I never waste my time with implementations which do not offer "acceptable" > performance, whereas I measure performance in Computer Language Shootout > ranking. (An error in it's own, btw.) > > I, and with the ever growing community (according to irc logs) most probably > others, wonder how factor compares performance-wise in measurable, comparable > values in agreed artificial on no-real world benchmarks as those seen on > TCLBG. You're right that the shootout benchmarks are rather artificial, but they're interesting anyway. Many of them I have already ported (look at extra/benchmark/). A fun project for a contributor would be to port the remaining ones. Slava ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Stay on top of everything new and different, both inside and around Java (TM) technology - register by April 22, and save $200 on the JavaOne (SM) conference, June 2-5, 2009, San Francisco. 300 plus technical and hands-on sessions. Register today. Use priority code J9JMT32. http://p.sf.net/sfu/p _______________________________________________ Factor-talk mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/factor-talk
