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

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