| | Message: 1 | Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:39:01 -0700 | Subject: RE: the large file challenge | From: John Vokey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | To be fair: most of metacard is coded in metatalk; it is a | boot-strapped language, much like many of the TILs (threaded | interpreted languages) of yesteryears (e.g., forth, apl). |
John, I agree with you too. I take his point that a C program should not be slower than a bash script invoking 2 utilities written in C. If anyone cares to contribute a better C program, go for it! Right now I'm running Pierre's MC revision to see how it does. This has been fun but I think we've come to the end. I think it has come to light that MC holds it's own with compiled languages. That was where this whole thing began, I was explaining to Swami that MC is not a compiled language, then Scott kinda said, so what, there is not that much difference between compiled and interpreted languages these days. That would be supported by the results of the timing tests, so I'd have to agree with Scott. However, I'm still sticking to my guns - MC is not a compiled language. Swami apparently thought it was. So I was trying to clarify it for him. And that led to all this fun! :-) Sadhu _______________________________________________ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
