Thank you very much to all who helps me to improve Rebol API to DyBASE. I am sorry that somebody treat my concerns about hash tables in Rebol as criticism of this language. I already understand that "make hash! 100000" is much more efficient than "make hash! []" and "loop N" is faster than "for 1 N 1". Frankly speaking I do not think that it is my fault or dullness: number of element which will be placed in hash table rarely can be predicted and one of the rules of good language design is that 1. there should be no similar constructions doing the same thing 2. programmer should be able to predict complexity of one or another operation. It is clear that function "power" is more expensive than for example "*". But it is impossible to guess that "append" is less efficient than "update tail" without having sources. Or that "func[x][x]" is 10!!! times faster than "func[x][return x]"!
So excuse me once again for "criticism" of your favorite language. Rebol is really interesting language. I could not say that I love everything in it, but I have programmed in more than 10 programming languages and invent two my own, and I could not said that some of them is "the best language in the world" - even in its category (I even not speaking about best universal programming language). Each language has its pro- and contra- and designer of the language has to solve a lot of compromises. I have receive a number of hints how to improve code: - replace "append" with "insert tail", - "to-logic" with "to logic!" - "(x = 'a) or (x = 'b)" with "find [a b] x" - if (first x) = #"_" with if #"_" = first x - "do cls" with "get cls" - "for i 1 N 1" with "repeat i N" - "to-string" with "form" - "if x [ if y .... ]" with "if all [x y]..." - "func[x][return x]" with "func[x][x]" I have applied all of them. Updated version of DyBASE API is uploaded to my site: http://www.garret.ru/dybase.html But... performance of testindex.r is almost not changed. That is why I decide to follow one of the fundamental principals of software development - optimize only those code which needs to be optimized (code in which program spends most of the time). That is why I need to profile the execution of the program. Unfortunately I had no profiler, because I have no professional version of Rebol. I will be very pleased if somebody has Rebol profiler and can profile execution of testindex.r and send profiler dump to me. Thanks in advance Konstantin -- Best regards, Konstantin mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe from this list, just send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the subject.
