Re: What are you writing using nim? :)

2017-08-24 Thread Nibbler
Privately, just play stuff that might eventually form a useful library to build off, but isn't of any real use to me immediately - like [https://github.com/Sud0nim/Unfathomable](https://github.com/Sud0nim/Unfathomable) Professionally I am tinkering with a wrapper for the back-end of the

Re: Estimation of π using Leibniz series

2017-08-14 Thread Nibbler
I compiled the same approximate version to C with gcc optimisations on, and found the execution time to be roughly comparable between Nim and C. Could Julia's JIT be doing some sort of optimisation that shortcuts the full code somehow? With the Nim version: import times, math

Re: Add Nim to The Computer Language Benchmarks Game?

2017-06-25 Thread Nibbler
Hey jlp765, I noticed that the benchmarks game website actually has a page somewhere explaining that they are not going to add Crystal, Nim and other new and upcoming languages ("so please stop asking" they say). The suggestion from the creator is that you make your own website for those